Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
by Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Zizek
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In an unusual experiment, three theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as separate contributions that respond to one another, range over the Hegelian legacy in contemporary critical theory, the theoretical dilemmas of multiculturalism, the universalism-versus-particularism debate, the strategies of the Left in a global economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical show more social theory. show lessTags
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This is must read if you are interested in any of these thinkers. Butler's contributions are as usual interesting, well written and cogent. However these contributions have largely been ignored by commentators on Butler. Butler's exchange with these 2 other important contributers to social and political thought is exemplary. The whole book stands as a very forthright and interesting discussion of both the complementarities but also the differences that separate all of them.
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Judith Butler was born in 1956. She is nationally known for her writings on gender and sexuality. She argues that men and women are not dissimilar and that the notion they are is cultural not biological in books such as Bodies That Matter: On The Discursive Limits Of "Sex" (1993), Excitable Speech: Contemporary Scenes Of Politics (1996), and The show more Psychic Life Of Power: Theories In Subjection (1997). In Gender Trouble (1990), the title a play on John Waters' camp classic Female Trouble (1975), Butler claims that both gender and drag are a kind of imitation for which there is no original. A professor of philosophy at University of California at Berkeley, Butler attended Yale, receiving a B.A. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1984. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government, University of ESSEX, and Distinguished Professor for Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University. HE is the author of numerous books on political theory and philosophy.
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Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, as well as critique of ideology and art, including show more Event, and Trouble in Paradise, both published by Melville House. show less
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Radical Thinkers (60 - Set 5(12))
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- Contingenza, egemonia, universalità : dialoghi sulla sinistra
- Original publication date
- 2000
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- Philosophy, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 320.01 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science Types of Government Political Science Philosophy and Theory
- LCC
- JA71 .B88 — Political Science Political science (General) Political science (General) Theory. Relations to other subjects
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- 7 — English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish
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