New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (Phronesis) - Softcover

Laclau, Ernesto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860919196 ISBN 13: 9780860919193

Publisher: Verso Books, 1990

Synopsis

New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time continues the innovative exploration of major issues concerning democracy and socialism which was staked out in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Examining the meanings of social struggle in the context of late capitalism, Laclau situates the re-making of political identities within a framework of democratic revolution. The critical method is one which describes major structural changes in the contemporary world-system at the same time as it theorizes a coherent and radical interpretative form. This marriage of politics and theory allows the book to embrace topics ranging from the relationship between Marxism and psychoanalysis to the historical significance of May 1968 and forms of political struggle in the third world. In a final section of illuminating interviews the author expounds his most recent thought on politics and philosophy.

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New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time "New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time" continues the innovative exploration of major issues concerning democracy and socialism which was staked out in "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy." Examining the meanings of social struggle in the context of late capitalism, Laclau situates the re-making of political identities within a framework of democratic revolution. The critical method is one wh... Full description

About the Author:

Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government, University of Essex, and Distinguished Professor for Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of, amongst other works, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Chantal Mouffe), New Reflections of the Revolution of Our Time, The Populist Reason, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (with Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek), and Emancipation(s).

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0860919196
• ISBN 13: 9780860919193
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280