The Charmed Vircle of Ideology
Subtitle: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Žižek
Series: Anamnesis
Publisher: Re.press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Seddon, Vic
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780980666595; 9780980544046
Subjects: Social aspects; Post-communism; World politics; Postmodernism; Marxian school of sociology
Description: Set against the collapse of social theory into a theory of ideological discourse, Geoff Boucher sets to work a rigorous mapping of the contemporary field, targeting the relativist implications of this new form of philosophical idealism. Offering a detailed and immanent critique, Boucher concentrates his critical attention on the 'postmarxism' of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Z iz ek. In response Boucher points to 'intersubjectivity' as an exit from postmarxist theory's charmed circle of ideology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-271) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: Critically Mapping the Postmarxian Field; 1; title: New Times: The Emergence of Postmarxism; 2; title: Crop Circles in the Postmarxian Field: Laclau and Mouffe; 3; title: The Politics of Performativity: A Critique of Judith Butler; 4; title: Radical Negativity: Z iz ek's Lacanian Dialectics; Conclusion: Theories of Structuration, Theories of Ideology; Bibliography; Index of Proper Names; Back Cover.