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 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, and the crisis of a left-wing project whose essentialist underpinnings have increasingly come under fire have, if anything, made more relevant than ever the theoretical perspective that the book proposes. Moreover the political project of ‘radical and plural democracy’ that it advocates provides a much-needed antidote to the attempts to formulate a Third Way capable of overcoming the classical opposition between Left and Right.Updated with a new preface, this is a fundamental text for understanding the workings of hegemony and grasping the nature of contemporary social struggles and their significance for democratic theory.

Product Description: Their essays, organized as separate contributions that respond to one another, range over the Hegelian legacy in contemporary critical theory, the theoretical dilemmas of multiculturalism, the universalism-versus-particularism debate, the strategies of the Left in a globalized economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical social theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: 140 pages Trials meeting in Debates and fighting, written in the past eight years, dealing with crucial issues related to the current political discussion on the left. In them, Ernesto Laclau conducts a thorough critique of the work of philosophers like Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri...read more

Product Description: In Emancipation(s), Ernesto Laclau 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? Our visions of the future and our expectations of emancipation, have been deeply affected by the changes of recent history: the end of the Cold War, the explosion of new ethnic and national identities, the social fragmentation under late capitalism, and the collapse of universal certainties in philosophy and social and historical thought...read more

Product Description: El populismo, práctica política históricamente desdeñada, es pensado en este libro como una lógica social y como un modo de construir lo político desde un enfoque que se aleja del punto de vista sociológico. El autor, con base en el posestructuralismo y en la teoría lacaniana, analiza el populismo estadunidense, el kemalismo turco y el peronismo de la resistencia, y aporta una nueva dimensión al análisis de la lucha hegemónica y de la formación de las identidades sociales, fundamentales para comprender los triunfos y fracasos de los movimientos populares...read more

Product Description: 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 Times and Emancipation(s). His topic here is the construction of popular identities, conceived in a wide sense covering the ensemble of strategies making possible the emergence of the ‘people’ as a collective actor...read more

Product Description: La crisis del marxismo es abordada en este libro por medio de una crítica a su esencialismo filosófico y a su concepto de sujeto unitario y fundante. La hegemonía es vista como una categoría central del análisis político y se estudian su formulación y su desarrollo...read more

Product Description: Una inovadora aportación al análisis de los procesos discursivos es lo que ofrecen estos tres ensayos: "Muerte y resurrección de la teoría de la ideología", "Política de la retórica" y "Sobre los nombres de Dios", escritos entre 1996 y 1998, cuyo eje rector es el papel clave que desempeñan las significaciones políticas, tema de investigación que ha colocado a Ernesto Laclau como uno de los estudiosos más originales en la reflexión política contemporánea...read more

Product Description: 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...read more