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Claude Lefort's Political Philosophy Democracy, Indeterminacy, Institution
This book proposes a new interpretation of Claude Lefort’s thought focusing on his phenomenological method. Although all scholars recognize the...
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Von Lefort zu Mouffe. Populismus als Moment und Grenze radikaler Demokratie
This article takes up Chantal Mouffe’s recent interventions in support of left populism as a starting point for a theoretical reflection on the...
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Socialisme ou Barbarie
This presentation of Socialisme ou Barbarie (SouB), a group founded by Claude Lefort and Cornelius Castoriadis in 1949, serves as an introduction to...
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The Symbolic Dimension of the Social
The third chapter delves into Lefort’s interpretation of Marx, which is conducted through the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. During the...
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Bureaucratic Society and Traditional Rationality: Claude Lefort
The work of Claude Lefort highlights one of the paradoxes of the Marxist tradition. Despite its claim to be the theory of the revolutionary...
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The Modern Symbolic Change
This chapter begins by clarifying the basic tools of Lefort’s thought and the phenomenological references that inform it. It then delves into his...
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Democracy
The last chapter begins by presenting Lefort’s definition of democracy as a “form of society” rather than a political regime or set of rules. This...
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The Political and the Institution of the Social
Before considering Lefort’s theory of democracy and totalitarianism, the seventh chapter aims to fully comprehend the theoretical context within...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter highlights an attempt to break away from the most popular interpretations of Lefort’s work. Through the phenomenological...
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Theoretische Überlegungen
Bevor wir auf die politische Moderne und damit auf die Frage nach politischen Rollen, Zwängen und Möglichkeiten für religiöse Bewegungen zu sprechen...
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Repräsentation im Spannungsfeld von Symbolizität, Performativität und politischem Imaginären
Moderne Demokratien sind Generatoren von Vorstellungen. Sie motivieren und stützen sich nicht nur auf Ideen und rationale Prinzipien, sondern auch...
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Fascism and Populism
This chapters analyzes the similarities and differences between fascism and populism. Differently from fascism that is confined to a particular...
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Niccolò Machiavelli
After addressing Lefort’s idea of modernity, his reading of Dante Alighieri’s Monarchia, and his thoughts on Florentine humanism, the remainder of...
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Introduction: Decentering “Marxist” Political Theory After State Socialism
In this introductory chapter, I have tried to look at “Marxism” from the outside, as it were—from the vast “underdeveloped” regions of the world,...
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Politikwissenschaft gegen sich selbst. Herbert Marcuse als Metöke seines Fachs
Der Beitrag porträtiert Herbert Marcuse als Politikwissenschaftler, der zu den einflussreichsten seines Fachs gehörte, ohne dass man ihn diesem Fach...
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Introduction
The book contributes to close a research gap in the triangular relationship between (1) the political and social theories of order with (2) the...
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From the Universal to the Specific Intellectual
In the 1960s, at the pinnacle of the struggles for national liberations and a decade after Hana Arendt’s critique of totalitarianism, a new...