Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau

by Oliver Marchart

Book Overview

A wide-ranging overview of the emergence of post-foundationalism and a survey of the work of its key contemporary exponents.This book presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between 'politics' (the practice of conventional politics: the political system or political forms of action) and 'the political' (a much more radical aspect which cannot be restricted to the realms of institutional politics). It is also the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748624988
• ISBN13: 9780748624980
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher