Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the LeftIn an unusual experiment, three theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. 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 global economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical social theory. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Questions | 5 |
Hegemony and the Limits of Formalism | 11 |
The Role of Universality in the Constitution of Political Logics | 44 |
Class Struggle or Postmodernism? Yes please | 90 |
Competing Universalities | 136 |
Structure History and the Political | 182 |
Da Capo senza Fine | 213 |
Dynamic Conclusions | 263 |
Constructing Universality | 281 |
Holding the Place | 308 |
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left Judith Butler,Ernesto Laclau,Slavoj Zizek No preview available - 2011 |
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