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Contingency, hegemony, universality : contemporary dialogues on the left / Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Phronesis (London, England)Publication details: London : Verso, 2000.Description: vi, 329 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 185984278X (pbk)
  • 9781859842782 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 BUT
Contents:
Introduction -- Questions -- Restaging the universal : hegemony and the limits of formalism / Judith Butler -- Identity and hegemony : the role of universality in the constitution of political logics / Ernesto Laclau -- Class struggle or postmodernism? Yes, please! / Slavoj Žižek -- Competing universalities / Judith Butler -- Structure, history and the political / Ernesto Laclau -- Da capo senza fine / Slavoj Žižek -- Dynamic conclusions / Judith Butler -- Constructing universality / Ernesto Laclau -- Holding the place / Slavoj Žižek.
Review: What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci\'s notion of hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as three contributions each 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 globalized economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical social theory. While the rigour and intelligence with which Butler, Laclau and Zizek approach their work is as formidable as one would expect, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality benefits additionally from their clear sense of energy and enjoyment in a revealing and often unpredictable exchange. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 social theory.

Introduction -- Questions -- Restaging the universal : hegemony and the limits of formalism / Judith Butler -- Identity and hegemony : the role of universality in the constitution of political logics / Ernesto Laclau -- Class struggle or postmodernism? Yes, please! / Slavoj Žižek -- Competing universalities / Judith Butler -- Structure, history and the political / Ernesto Laclau -- Da capo senza fine / Slavoj Žižek -- Dynamic conclusions / Judith Butler -- Constructing universality / Ernesto Laclau -- Holding the place / Slavoj Žižek.

What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci\'s notion of hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as three contributions each 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 globalized economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical social theory. While the rigour and intelligence with which Butler, Laclau and Zizek approach their work is as formidable as one would expect, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality benefits additionally from their clear sense of energy and enjoyment in a revealing and often unpredictable exchange. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Questions (p. 5)
  • Restaging the Universal: Hegemony and the Limits of Formalism (p. 11)
  • Identity and Hegemony: The Role of Universality in the Constitution of Political Logics (p. 44)
  • Class Struggle or Postmodernism? Yes, please! (p. 90)
  • Competing Universalities (p. 136)
  • Structure, History and the Political (p. 182)
  • Da Capo senza Fine (p. 213)
  • Dynamic Conclusions (p. 263)
  • Constructing Universality (p. 281)
  • Holding the Place (p. 308)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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 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)

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