TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler,Judith
AU  - Laclau,Ernesto
AU  - Žižek,Slavoj
TI  - Contingency, hegemony, universality: contemporary dialogues on the left 
T2  - Phronesis
SN  - 185984278X (pbk)
U1  - 320.01 BUT 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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