Since its original publication fifteen years ago, this hugely influential book has been at the centre of much debate. The arguments and controversies it has been aroused are, furthermore, far from abating: the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the emergence of new social and political identities linked to the transformation of late capitalism, ...
In this new and highly original work Ernesto Laclau continues the philosophical and political exploration initiated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time and Emancipation(s). his topic here is the construction of popular identities, conceived in a wide sense covering the ensemble of strategies making ...
This key text of the new 'post-Marxism' criticizes the persistent essentialism of the Marxist tradition from Plekhanov via Lenin and Gramsci to Althusser, and proposes a radical renovation of theory and practice.
This work brings together many trends of current thinking - Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, neo-Hegelianism and political philosophy - to illuminate the question of identity in the contemporary world. In addition, it provides concrete studies of some of the more important new political identities which have emerged in recent decades. The ...
What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, ...
Una inovadora aportacion al analisis de los procesos discursivos es lo que ofrece el presente volumen, el cual esta integrado por tres ensayos: "Muerte y resurreccion de la teoria de la ideologia," "Politica de la retorica" y "Sobre los nombres de Dios," trabajos escritos entre 1996 y 1998, cuyo eje rector es el papel clave que desempenan los ...
Soap-opera is a key genre in Latin America. This book analyses its textual and industrial production systems, its forms of commercialization and circulation, its entry into international markets. Mazziotti follows the path, from its beginnings, of soap opera and serial fiction production in countries where this genre has acquired paramount ...
This volume addresses a central question: how have the changes of the last decade, together with the transformation in contemporary thought, altered the classical notion of "emancipation" as formulated since the Enlightenment? The vision of the future and expectations of emancipation, have been deeply affected by the changes of recent history: the ...
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