Claude Lefort [electronic resource] : Thinker of the Political /
Plot, M.editor.
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.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Claude Lefort, A Close Reader: Intellectual Influences and Dialogues""; ""1 Claude Lefort: A Political Biography""; ""2 Lefort as Phenomenologist of the Political""; ""3 Lefort and Machiavelli""; ""4 Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division""; ""5 Claude Lefort as Reader of Leo Strauss""; ""Part II: Interpreting the Political: Events and Political Thought""; ""6 Claude Lefort, the Practice and Thought of Disincorporation""; ""7 The Style Claude Lefort""
""8 Lefort, the Philosopher of 1989""""9 Rethinking the Politics of Human Rights and Democracy with and beyond Lefort""; ""10 Lefort and Tocqueville on the Possibility of Democratic Despotism""; ""Part III: Symbolic Mutations: Lefortâ€?s Influence in Contemporary Democratic Theory""; ""11 Thinking Democracy beyond Regimes: Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State""; ""12 Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension""; ""13 Democracy beyond the Political: Reconsidering the Social""; ""14 Lefort and the Fate of Radical Democracy""; ""15 The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political""; ""Index""
Includes index.
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.
Lefort, Claude.
Political sociology.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Public policy.
Political theory.
Political science.
Political Sociology.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Public Policy.
Political Theory.
Political Science.