Hegemony/Socialist Strategy 2E Pa

by Laclau,Ernesto

• ISBN13: 9781859843307
• ISBN10: 1859843301
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

To what extent does it call into the question the idea of social totality that underpinned Marxism and many other socialist theories? Does the concept of hegemony imply a new logic that goes beyond the essentialism of classical Marxist thought? These are some of the questions that this now seminal book attempts to answer. It traces the genealogy of the present crisis, from the nineteenth-century debates to the contemporary emergence of new forms of struggle, making it a classic text both for understanding hegemony and for focusing on present social struggles and their significance for democratic theory.

Author Biography

Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Essex Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	vii
Introduction	1	(6)
Hegemony: the Genealogy of a Concept	7	(40)
Hegemony: the Difficult Emergence of a New Political Logic	47	(46)
Beyond the Positivity of the Social: Antagonisms and Hegemony	93	(56)
Hegemony and Radical Democracy	149	(46)
Index	195