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Books by Ernesto Laclau






Hegemony And Socialist Strategy(2nd Edition)
Towards A Radical Democratic Politics (Radical Thinkers)
by Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-154-1, ISBN: 1-78168-154-6

"In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy" remains as relevant as ever, positing a much-needed antidote against 'Third Way' attempts to overcome the ..."






On Populist Reason(Reprint)
by Ernesto Laclau
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-131-7, ISBN: 1-78873-131-X

"In this highly original work Ernesto Laclau continues the philosophical and political exploration initiated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Here he focuses on the construction of popular identities and how “the people” emerge as a collective actor. Skillfully combining theoretical analysis with a myriad of empirical references from numerous historical and geographical contexts he offers a critical reading of the existing literature ..."






Contingency, Hegemony, Universality(2nd Edition)
Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (Radical Thinkers)
by Slavoj Zizek, Judith P. Butler, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Iek
Paperback, 330 Pages, Published 2011 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-668-2, ISBN: 1-84467-668-4

"The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.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, orga ..."






The Rhetorical Foundations Of Society
by Ernesto Laclau
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-170-1, ISBN: 1-78168-170-8

"The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's classic "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. " Central to the argument of "The Rhetorical Foundations of Society "is the establishment of rhetorical tropes--such as metaphor, metonymy and catachresis--as the 'non-foundational' grounds of society. From this basis, Laclau explores the state of social relations in today's heterogen ..."






Emancipation(1st Edition)
by Ernesto Laclau
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2007 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-576-0, ISBN: 1-84467-576-9

"Laclau makes a startling argument as to how the changes of the late twentieth century have altered Enlightenment notions of "emancipation."In Emancipation(s), Ernesto Laclau addresses a central question: how have the changes of the last decade, together with the transformation in contemporary thought, altered the classical notion of “emancipation” as formulated since the Enlightenment? Our visions of the future and our expectations of e ..."






Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory(Reprint)
Capitalism, Fascism, Populism (Radical Thinkers)
by Ernesto Laclau
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2012 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-788-7, ISBN: 1-84467-788-5

"Analysis of the role of ideology in political movements.Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s, and a member of PSIN (Socialist Party of the National Left), Laclau's oeuvre links the working class and new social movements. Rejecting Marxist economic determinism and the notion of class struggle, Laclau instead ..."






New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time(1st Edition)
(Phronesis (Paperback))
by Ernesto Laclau
Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 1990 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-919-3, ISBN: 0-86091-919-6

"New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time continues the innovative exploration of major issues concerning democracy and socialism which was staked out in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Examining the meanings of social struggle in the context of late capitalism, Laclau situates the re-making of political identities within a framework of democratic revolution. The critical method is one which describes major structural changes in th ..."






On Populist Reason(Reprint)
by Ernesto Laclau
Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2007 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-186-1, ISBN: 1-84467-186-0

"This is a tour de force analysis of the forces that drive populism by the renowned political theorist. In this highly original work, Ernesto Laclau continues the philosophical and political exploration initiated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Here, he focuses on the construction of popular identities and how 'the people' emerges as a collective actor. Skilfully combining theoretical analysis with a myriad of empirical references fr ..."






Imagine There's No Woman
Ethics and Sublimation
by Ernesto Laclau, Joan Copjec
Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 2005 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-651-3, ISBN: 1-85984-651-3

"12 I take the analysis of this aspect of Freud's study of the Rat Man from Bruce Fink, The Lacanian Subject, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995, p. 23. For a study of the question of the relationship between ... and Politics, p. 26. 7 As Barrows (Distorting Mirrors, p. 80), reminds us, George Rude's studies on The Crowd in the French Revolution (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1959) 25 'There was no necessity for midd ..."






Hegemony and Socialist Strategy(2nd Edition)
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
by Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Laclau Mouffe
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-330-7, ISBN: 1-85984-330-1

"How is the present crisis of left-wing thought to be understood?Since its original publication fifteen years ago, this hugely influential book has been at the centre of much debate. The arguments and controversies it has aroused are, furthermore, far from abating: the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the emergence of new social and political identities linked to the transformation of late capitalism, and the crisis of a left-wing proj ..."






Contingency, Hegemony, Universality(1st Edition)
Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
by Judith P. Butler, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Zizek, Chantal Mouffe, Slavoj Iek, Judith/ Lacl Butler
Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2000 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-278-2, ISBN: 1-85984-278-X

"In a compelling and unusual experiment, three eminent theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics.In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek engage in 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 criti ..."






The Making of Political Identities(1st Edition)
(Phronesis Series)
by Ernesto Laclau
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1994 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-663-5, ISBN: 0-86091-663-4

"This lively book examines the major issues raised by the emergence and transformation of various political identities in the contemporary world. The contributors bring together many current trends of thought Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, neo-Hegelianism and political philosophy that are relevant to the question of identity, as well as concrete studies of some of the more important political identities which have emerged in re ..."






Emancipation
(s)
by Ernesto Laclau
Paperback, 134 Pages, Published 1996 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-165-5, ISBN: 1-85984-165-1

"In Emancipation(s), Ernesto Laclau addresses a central question: how have the changes of the last decade, together with the transformation in contemporary thought, altered the classical notion of “emancipation” as formulated since the Enlightenment? Our visions of the future and our expectations of emancipation, have been deeply affected by the changes of recent history: the end of the Cold War, the explosion of new ethnic and national ..."






Ernesto Laclau(1st Edition)
Post-Marxism, Populism and Critique (Routledge Innovators in Political Theory)
by David R. Howarth, Ernesto Laclau
Paperback, 294 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-87087-0, ISBN: 0-415-87087-9

"Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social and political science. The editors have focused on work in three key areas: Post-Marxist Political Theory: Discourse, Hegemony, ..."






On Populist Reason
by Ernesto Laclau
288 Pages, Published 2018 by Verso Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-133-1, ISBN: 1-78873-133-6

"in La Tentation populiste en Europe, sous la direction de Oliver Ihl, Janine Chêne , Eric Vial, Ghislain Wartelot, Paris, La Découverte, 2003, pp. 113–29. H. G. Betz, Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe, New York, St. Martin's Press, ..."






Deconstruction and Pragmatism
by Jacques Derrida, Simon Critchley, Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty
112 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-80769-7, ISBN: 1-134-80769-4

"That over-philosophication has helped create, in the universities of the US and Britain (where Derrida's, Laclau's, and Chantal Mouffe's books are very widely read and admired) a self-involved academic left which has become increasingly irrelevant to substantive political discussion. Such over-philosophication is evinced when Laclau isolates notions like 'toleration' or 'the political' or ' representation' and then points out that w ..."






Hegemony and Socialist Strategy(2nd Edition)
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
by Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-621-6, ISBN: 1-85984-621-1

"To what extent does it call into the question the idea of social totality that underpinned Marxism and many other socialist theories? Does the concept of hegemony imply a new logic that goes beyond the essentialism of classical Marxist thought? These are some of the questions that this now seminal book attempts to answer. It traces the genealogy of the present crisis, from the nineteenth-century debates to the contemporary emergence of ..."






Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
by Judith P. Butler, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Zizek
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2000 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-757-2, ISBN: 1-85984-757-9

"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 Žižek 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 ..."






The Making of Political Identities
(Phronesis Series)
by Ernesto Laclau
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1994 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-409-9, ISBN: 0-86091-409-7

"This lively book examines the major issues raised by the emergence and transformation of various political identities in the contemporary world. The contributors bring together many current trends of thought—Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, neo-Hegelianism and political philosophy—that are relevant to the question of identity, as well as concrete studies of some of the more important political identities which have emerged in re ..."






Disfigurations(1st Edition)
Discourse/Critique/Ethics
by Ian H. Angus, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Dis-Figurations
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-277-5, ISBN: 1-85984-277-1

"There has been, over the last decades, a deep crisis in the models which, for a long time, have been central metaphors governing thought and research in the social sciences. The main symptom in this paradigmatic shift has been the increasing centrality of the ‘discourse’ approach in social theory.It is Ian Angus’s aim here to explore thoroughly the philosophical implications of this shift. He does so by combining serious philosophical r ..."



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