Authors:Rosine Lefort, Robert Lefort,
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: birth
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1994-09-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0252063937
ISBN-13: 9780252063930

Author: Claude Lefort
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: contemporary, interventions, post, test, political, writing
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2000-10
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822325209
ISBN-13: 9780822325208

Writing involves risks—the risk that one will be misunderstood, the risk of being persecuted, the risks of being made a champion for causes in which one does not believe, this risk of inadvertently supporting a reader’s prejudices, to name a few. In trying to give expression to what is true, the writer must “clear a passage within the agitated world of passions,” an undertaking that always to some extent fails: writers are never the master of their own speech. In Writing: The Political Test, France’s leading political philosopher, Claude Lefort, illuminates the process by which writ

Author: Bernard Flynn
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: political, spep, interpreting, lefort, claude, philosophy
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2006-01-09
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0810121069
ISBN-13: 9780810121065

From the beginning, the French philosopher Claude Lefort has set himself the task of interpreting the political life of modern society - and over time he has succeeded in elaborating a distinctive conception of modern democracy that is linked to both historical analysis and a novel form of philosophical reflection. This book, the first full-scale study of Lefort to appear in English, offers a clear and compelling account of Lefort’s accomplishment - its unique merits, its relation to political philosophy within the Continental tradition, and its great relevance today. Much of what passes

Authors:Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Claude Lefort,
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: spep, world, prose
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 1973-12-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0810106159
ISBN-13: 9780810106154

Author: Oliver Marchart
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: political, badiou, laclau, lefort, taking, difference, foundational, thought, post, nancy
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-07-15
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0748624988
ISBN-13: 9780748624980

A wide-ranging overview of the emergence of post-foundationalism and a survey of the work of its key contemporary exponents.This book presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between ’politics’ (the practice of conventional politics: the political system or political forms of action) and ’the political’ (a much more radical aspect which cannot be restricted to the realms of institutional politics). It is also the first introductory overview of post-foundationalism and the tradition of ’left Heideggerianism’: the political thought