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The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Žižek (Anamnesis)

By Geoff Boucher

Book information

Publisher
re.press
Year
2009
ISBN
0980544041, 9780980544046
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1897478 bytes)
Series
Anamnesis)
Pages
288\288
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00
Философские дисциплины;Социальная философия

Description

Set against the collapse of social theory into a theory of ideological discourse, Geoff Boucher sets to work a rigorous mapping of the contemporary field, targeting the relativist implications of this new form of philosophical idealism. Offering a detailed and immanent critique Boucher concentrates his critical attention on the 'postmarxism' of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Žižek. Combining close reading and careful exposition with polemical intent, Boucher links the relativism exemplified in these contemporary theoretical trends to unresolved philosophical problems of modernity. In conclusion Boucher points to 'intersubjectivity' as an exit from postmarxist theory's charmed circle of ideology.

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