Claude Lefort: Thinker Of The Political (critical Explorations In Contemporary Thought)
by Martin Plot /
2013 / English / PDF
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It is impossible to overstate the ways in which Claude Lefort has
influenced democratic theorizing over the past three decades.
With the impact he has had on some of the 20th and 21st Centuries
most notable and important Political Theorists from Ernesto
Laclau, Chantal Mouffe andSlavoj Zizek to Jacques Rancière,
Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen, Lefort's thought has become both
radical and liberal democracy's obligatory reference and
unparalleled knot of confluence. This volume brings together
scholars from around the world and offers an engaging and
comprehensive investigation of Lefort's intellectual dialogues
and debates, his engagement with the most relevant global
political events of the past decades, and his impact on current
innovations in continental political and social theory. As a
result this book a vital reference point for students and
scholars of Claude Lefort as well as of radical and liberal
democracy in general.
It is impossible to overstate the ways in which Claude Lefort has
influenced democratic theorizing over the past three decades.
With the impact he has had on some of the 20th and 21st Centuries
most notable and important Political Theorists from Ernesto
Laclau, Chantal Mouffe andSlavoj Zizek to Jacques Rancière,
Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen, Lefort's thought has become both
radical and liberal democracy's obligatory reference and
unparalleled knot of confluence. This volume brings together
scholars from around the world and offers an engaging and
comprehensive investigation of Lefort's intellectual dialogues
and debates, his engagement with the most relevant global
political events of the past decades, and his impact on current
innovations in continental political and social theory. As a
result this book a vital reference point for students and
scholars of Claude Lefort as well as of radical and liberal
democracy in general.
