The Making of Political Identities

by LACLAU, ERNESTO

• ISBN13: 9780860916635
• ISBN10: 0860916634
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-17
• Publisher: Verso
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Summary

This book examines the major issues raised by the emergence and transformation of various political identities in the contemporary world.

Author Biography

Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government, University of Essex, and Distinguished Professor for Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of, amongst other works, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Chantal Mouffe), New Reflections of the Revolution of Our Time, The Populist Reason, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (with Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek), and Emancipation(s).

Renata Salcel is a philosopher and sociologist. She is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology, University of Ljublijana, Slovenia, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Her previous books include The Spoils of Freedom and, edited with Slavoj Žižek, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Minding the Gap: The Subject of Politics	p. 11
Identity and Its Vicissitudes: Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology	p. 40
Yes Absolutely: Unlike Any Writing Pen	p. 76
Equality at the Limit of Liberty	p. 103
Social Ambiguity and the Crisis of Apartheid	p. 115
'A Country of Words': Conceiving the Palestinian Nation from the Position of Exile	p. 138
Rastafari as Resistance and the Ambiguities of Essentialism in the 'New Social Movements'	p. 171
The Crisis of Identity and the Struggle for New Hegemony in the Former Yugoslavia	p. 205
The Green Threshold	p. 233
Sign O' Times: Kaffirs and Infidels Fighting the Ninth Crusade	p. 264
Notes on Contributors	p. 287
Index	p. 289
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