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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...
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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. A tribute to and a critical engagement with one of the most creative political philosophers of the 20th century: the essays by Flynn, Arato, Cohen, Howard and others, collected by Martin Plot, bring to full life the entwinement of the social, the aesthetic and the political which was at the center of Lefort's work. Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy and Former President of the Italian Association of Political Philosophy. Claude Lefort was one of the most seminal political theorists to reflect on the enduring meanings of democracy in the shadow of 20th century totalitarianism. I highly recommend this fine book, which brings together a range of important and insightful commentators to reflect on Lefort's thinking and its continuing legacy. Jeffrey C. Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, USA 'Lefort's oeuvre appears as crucial for our understanding of the political as that of Leo Strauss, whose antithesis it forms in many respects. Inventing rights and disincorporating power are the principles of his theory of democracy beyond the revolutionary age, as this collection by the best experts brilliantly demonstrate.' Professor Emeritus of moral and political philosophy at Universite de Paris X - Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230375574, 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | 264 p. |
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| CLC: | D09 |
| Contents: | Foreword-- Bernard Flynn Acknowledgements Note to Contributors Introduction-- Martin Plot PART I: CLAUDE LEFORT, A CLOSE READER: INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES AND DIALOGUES 1. Claude Lefort: A Political Biography-- Dick Howard 2. Lefort as Phenomenologist of the Political-- Bernard Flynn 3. Lefort and Machiavelli-- Newton Bignotto 4. Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division-- Samuel Moyn 5. Claude Lefort as Reader of Leo Strauss-- Claudia Hilb PART II: INTERPRETING THE POLITICAL: EVENTS AND POLITICAL THOUGHT 6. Claude Lefort, the Practice and Thought of Disincorporation-- Giles Bataillon 7. The Style Claude Lefort-- Michael B. Smith 8. Lefort, the Philosopher of 1989-- Andrew Arato 9. Rethinking the Politics of Human Rights and Democracy with and beyond Claude Lefort-- Jean Cohen 10. Lefort and Tocqueville on the Possibility of Democratic Despotism-- Steven Bilakovics PART III: SYMBOLIC MUTATIONS: LEFORT'S INFLUENCE IN CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRATIC THEORY 11. Thinking Democracy Beyond Regimes: 'Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State-- Marc G. Doucet 12. Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension-- Warren Breckman 13. Democracy Beyond the Political-- Brian Singer 14. Lefort and the Fate of Radical Democracy-- Jeremy Valentine 15. The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political-- Martin Plot. |