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Claude Lefort : Thinker of the Political
Title
Claude Lefort : Thinker of the Political / edited by Martin Plot.
ISBN
9780230375581
0230375588
1299717225
9781299717220
9781349350896
1349350893
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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1 online resource.
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Summary
This is the first English language volume to offer sucha wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. Itconstitutes the most comprehensive attempt to reconstruct Lefort's engagement withhis theoretical interlocutors as well as his influence on today's democratic thoughtand contemporary continental political philosophy.
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Palgrave political & international studies collection 2013.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Series
Critical explorations in contemporary political thought
Contents
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Claude Lefort, A Close Reader: Intellectual Influences and Dialogues; 1 Claude Lefort: A Political Biography; 2 Lefort as Phenomenologist of the Political; 3 Lefort and Machiavelli; 4 Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division; 5 Claude Lefort as Reader of Leo Strauss; Part II: Interpreting the Political: Events and Political Thought; 6 Claude Lefort, the Practice and Thought of Disincorporation; 7 The Style Claude Lefort; 8 Lefort, the Philosopher of 1989.
9 Rethinking the Politics of Human Rights and Democracy with and beyond Lefort10 Lefort and Tocqueville on the Possibility of Democratic Despotism; Part III: Symbolic Mutations: Lefort's Influence in Contemporary Democratic Theory; 11 Thinking Democracy beyond Regimes: Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State; 12 Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension; 13 Democracy beyond the Political: Reconsidering the Social; 14 Lefort and the Fate of Radical Democracy; 15 The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political; Index.
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