| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Thinker of the Political |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
PlotMartin., |
| Place of Publication: |
[S.l.] |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource |
| Series: |
Critical explorations in contemporary political thought |
| Subject: |
Political science - Philosophy. - |
| Subject: |
Philosophers - |
| Subject: |
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory - |
| Personal Subject: |
Lefort, Claude. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230375581 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record |
| Summary: |
This is the first English language volume to offer sucha wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. Itconstitutes the most comprehensive attempt to reconstruct Lefort's engagement withhis theoretical interlocutors as well as his influence on today's democratic thoughtand contemporary continental political philosophy. |
| ISBN: |
9780230375581electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230375588electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1299717225electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9781299717220electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Claude Lefort, A Close Reader: Intellectual Influences and Dialogues; 1 Claude Lefort: A Political Biography; 2 Lefort as Phenomenologist of the Political; 3 Lefort and Machiavelli; 4 Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division; 5 Claude Lefort as Reader of Leo Strauss; Part II: Interpreting the Political: Events and Political Thought; 6 Claude Lefort, the Practice and Thought of Disincorporation; 7 The Style Claude Lefort; 8 Lefort, the Philosopher of 1989 |
| Content Note: |
9 Rethinking the Politics of Human Rights and Democracy with and beyond Lefort10 Lefort and Tocqueville on the Possibility of Democratic Despotism; Part III: Symbolic Mutations: Lefort's Influence in Contemporary Democratic Theory; 11 Thinking Democracy beyond Regimes: Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State; 12 Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension; 13 Democracy beyond the Political: Reconsidering the Social; 14 Lefort and the Fate of Radical Democracy; 15 The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political; Index |