Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Essex School of discourse analysis, or simply 'The Essex School', refers to a type of scholarship founded on the works of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.It focuses predominantly on the political discourses of late modernity utilising discourse analysis, as well as post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory, such as may be found in the works of Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida.
Norman Geras, in a New Left Review article titled "Post-Marxism?", lambasted Laclau and Mouffe for what he regarded as shallow obscurantism grounded on basic misunderstandings of both Marx and Marxism. After Laclau's and Mouffe's response to Geras' paper (in "Post-Marxism without apologies"), Geras doubled down with "Ex-Marxism Without ...
Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex Includes Laclau papers on populism and the philosophical roots of discourse theory; Ideology and Discourse Analysis network; Hearts, Minds and Radical Democracy Archived 14 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine Interview with Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
Laclau and Mouffe have argued for radical agonistic democracy, where different opinions and worldviews are not oppressed by the search for consensus in liberal and deliberative democracy. As this agonistic perspective has been most influential in academic literature, it has been subject to most criticisms on the idea of radical democracy.
Chantal Mouffe (French:; born 17 June 1943) [1] is a Belgian political theorist, formerly teaching at University of Westminster. [2] She is best known for her and Ernesto Laclau's contribution to the development of the so-called Essex School of discourse analysis.
This theory is often very different from that produced by Laclau and Mouffe, and much of the Left has turned against the Post-Marxist turn. [53] [54] Despite being born in Latin America and the Eastern Bloc, post-Marxism is largely produced by theorists of the Global North, as the following criticisms reveal.
The essays offer further discussion of the concept of radical democracy that Mouffe explored in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, co-authored by Ernesto Laclau. In this collection, Mouffe deals with the specific conflicts between the post-Marxist democratic theory that she and Laclau theorized in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy and the competing ...
The figure of excess fulfils a different purpose in Mouffe's theory of the political, which rests heavily on her and Laclau's notion of hegemony. [49] According to Dikec, hegemony in Laclau and Mouffe's image presupposes the impossibility of 'a totally sutured society, or, in other words, a total closure of the social'. [50]