Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought: New Theories of the Political

by Newman; Saul

• ISBN13: 9780415364560
• ISBN10: 0415364566
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book explores the impact of poststructuralism on contemporary political theory by focussing on a number of problems and issues central to politics today. Drawing on the theoretical concerns brought to light by the 'poststructuralist' thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze and Max Stirner, Newman provides a critical examination of new developments in contemporary political theory: post-Marxism, discourse analysis, new theories of ideology and power, hegemony, radical democracy and psychoanalytic theory. He re-examines the political in light of these developments in theory to suggest new ways of thinking about politics through a reflection on the challenges that confront it. This will volume will be of great interest to students of postmodernism and poststructuralist theory in political science, philosophy, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Preface	x
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	1	(12)
1 Politics of the ego: Stirner's critique of liberalism	13	(18)
2 Ressentiment and radical politics	31	(20)
3 New reflections on the theory of power: a Lacanian perspective	51	(17)
4 Spectres of Stirner: a contemporary critique of ideology	68	(16)
5 Derrida's deconstruction of authority	84	(16)
6 On the politics of violence: terror, sovereignty and law	100	(16)
7 Spectres of the uncanny: the 'return of the repressed' in politics	116	(18)
8 Towards a poststructuralist politics of universality	134	(19)
Conclusion	153	(9)
Notes	162	(4)
Bibliography	166	(6)
Index	172