Thinking Antagonism: Political Ontology after Laclau

ISBN-13: 9781474413312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str.

Oliver (Professor of Political Theory in the Department of P

Opis

Oliver Marchart presents the main features of Ernesto Laclau's ontology and tracks the development of antagonism from German Idealism via Marx to today's post-Marxism. In doing so, he demonstrates Laclau's significant contribution to the current 'ontological turn' in political thought.

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List of Abbreviations; Introduction: What Is Antagonism?: 1. ‘What’s Going on With Being?’: Laclau and the Return of Political Ontology; Part I Thinking the Political: 2. Marx on the Beach: An Intellectual History of Antagonism; 3. Beyond the ‘War Hypothesis’: Polemology in Foucault, Stiegler and Loraux; Part II Thinking Politics: 4. The Restless Nature of the Social: On the Micro-Conflictuality of Everyday Life; 5. Politics and the Popular: Protest and Culture in Laclau’s Theory of Populism; 6. On Minimal Politics: Conditions of Acting Politically; Part III Politicising Thought: 7. The Final Name of Being: Thinking as Reflective Intervention; 8. Being as Acting: The Primacy of Politics and the Politics of Thought; Conclusion: Ostinato Rigore, or, The Ethics of Intellectual Engagement; Notes; Bibliography; Index.