Title Claude Lefort : Thinker of the Political / edited by Martin Plot

Published [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Critical explorations in contemporary political thought Critical explorations in contemporary political thought series. Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Claude Lefort, A Close Reader: Intellectual Influences and Dialogues; 1 Claude Lefort: A Political Biography; 2 Lefort as Phenomenologist of the Political; 3 Lefort and Machiavelli; 4 Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division; 5 Claude Lefort as Reader of Leo Strauss; Part II: Interpreting the Political: Events and Political Thought; 6 Claude Lefort, the Practice and Thought of Disincorporation; 7 The Style Claude Lefort; 8 Lefort, the Philosopher of 1989 9 Rethinking the Politics of Human Rights and Democracy with and beyond Lefort10 Lefort and Tocqueville on the Possibility of Democratic Despotism; Part III: Symbolic Mutations: Lefort's Influence in Contemporary Democratic Theory; 11 Thinking Democracy beyond Regimes: Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State; 12 Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension; 13 Democracy beyond the Political: Reconsidering the Social; 14 Lefort and the Fate of Radical Democracy; 15 The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political; Index Summary This is the first English language volume to offer sucha wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. Itconstitutes the most comprehensive attempt to reconstruct Lefort's engagement withhis theoretical interlocutors as well as his influence on today's democratic thoughtand contemporary continental political philosophy Notes English Print version record Subject Lefort, Claude. SUBJECT Lefort, Claude fast Lefort, Claude 1924-2010 gnd Subject Political science -- Philosophy. Philosophers -- Biography Political ideologies. Political science & theory. Political control & freedoms. Political activism. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory. Politics and Government. Philosophers Political science -- Philosophy Politisches Denken Political ideologies. Political science & theory. Political control & freedoms. Political activism. Politics and Government. Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book Author Plot, Martin ISBN 9780230375581 0230375588 1299717225 9781299717220 9781349350896 1349350893

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