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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.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Claude Lefort, A Close Reader: Intellectual Influences and Dialogues
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Interpreting the Political: Events and Political Thought
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Symbolic Mutations: Lefort’s Influence in Contemporary Democratic Theory
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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
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Claude Lefort
Book Subtitle: Thinker of the Political
Editors: Martín Plot
Series Title: Critical Explorations in Contemporary Political Thought
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375581
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-37557-4Published: 11 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35089-6Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37558-1Published: 11 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2947-8383
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8391
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 245
Topics: Political Sociology, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Science