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Claude Lefort

Thinker of the Political

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Claude Lefort, A Close Reader: Intellectual Influences and Dialogues

  3. Interpreting the Political: Events and Political Thought

  4. Symbolic Mutations: Lefort’s Influence in Contemporary Democratic Theory

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About this book

This is the first English language volume to offer such a wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. It constitutes the most comprehensive attempt to reconstruct Lefort's engagement with his theoretical interlocutors as well as his influence on today's democratic thought and contemporary continental political philosophy.

Reviews

'...in Claude Lefort: Thinker of the Political we have a collection of essays that is perpetually circling notions of contingency; of impermanence; of indeterminacy in political and social life; of the dissolution of the markers of certainty; and of a common vocabulary that is rooted not in the resolution of political conflict, but in its negotiation.'

Dan DiPiero, Continental Philosophy Review, Volume 6, No.4, December 2013

Editors and Affiliations

  • Aesthetics & Politics Program and the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA

    Martín Plot

About the editor

Andrew Arato, New School for Social Research, USA Giles Bataillon, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France Newton Bignotto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Steven Bilakovics, Christopher Newport University, USA Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania, USA Jean Cohen, Columbia University, USA Marc G. Doucet, University of Ottawa, Canada Bernard Flynn, Undergraduate New School For Research, USA Claudia Hilb, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Dick Howard, SUNY, USA Samuel Moyn, Columbia University, USA Brian C. J. Singer, Glendon College, York University, Canada Michael B. Smith, Berry College, USA Jeremy Valentine, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK

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