Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community (Phronesis Series)
Chantal Mouffeis a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Her books includeThe Return of the Political;Hegemony and Socialist Strategy(with Ernesto Laclau);The Dimensions of Radical Democracy;Gramsci and Marxist Theory;Deconstruction and Pragmatism;The Democratic Paradox; andThe Challenge of Carl Schmitt, all from Verso.Bryan S. Turneris professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University in England and a professorial fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. His previous publications includeThe Body and Society(1984),Medical Power and Social Knowledge(1987) andRegulating Bodies(1992). He is the joint editor with Mike Featherstone of the journalBody & Society. He teaches medical sociology and the sociology of human rights at Cambridge. He is currently editing theCambridge Dictionary of Sociology(with Craig Calhoun and Chris Rojek) and theInternational Handbook of Sociology. He is also doing research on rights, learning disabilities, and social inclusion.Slavoj Žižekis 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 includeLiving in the End Times,First as Tragedy, Then as Farce,In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.