Introduction: A User's Guide; Prologue: October 10, 1492; Part I: CRITIQUE; 1. Argentina 1972: Cultural Studies and Populism; 2. Ayacucho 1982: Civil Society Theory and Neoliberalism; Part II: CONSTITUTION; 3. Escalón 1989: Deleuze and Affect; 4. Chile 1992: Bourdieu and Habit; Conclusion: Negri and Multitude; Epilogue: April 13, 2002; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
Posthegemony is an investigation into the origins, limits, and possibilities for contemporary politics and political analysis. Jon Beasley-Murray grounds his theoretical discussion with accounts of historical movements in Latin America, from Columbus to Chávez, and from Argentine Peronism to Peru's Sendero Luminoso. Challenging dominant strains in social theory, Beasley-Murray contends that cultural studies simply replicates the populism that conditions it, and that civil society theory merely nourishes the neoliberalism that it sets out to oppose. Both end up entrenching the fiction of a soci