Product Description: Combines the heated debates between post-structuralist critics and defenders of democracy to create a new theoryAre we living in post-democratic times - has democracy turned into an empty institutional shell? The upsurge of democratic revolutions and revolts in the West and the Arab world begs to differ...read more

Product Description: Durante los últimos 30 años, los conceptos tradicionales de la teoría política han sido fuertemente cuestionados y en muchos casos dejados de lado. La innovadora obra de Ernesto Laclau representa uno de los intentos más radicales de revitalizar y reformular conceptos tales como lo político, la hegemonía del discurso, la identidad, de modo que resultan fundamentales para el pensamiento de la política y la teoría social...read more

Product Description: 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)...read more

Product Description: Laclau: A Critical Reader is the first full-length critical appraisal of Laclau's work and includes contributions from several leading philosophers and theorists. The first section examines Laclau's theory that the contest between universalism and particularism provides much of the philosophical background to political and social struggle, taking up the important place accorded to, amongst others, Hegel and Lacan in Laclau's work...read more