Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought

TRAMA

This book explores the impact of poststructuralism on contemporary political theory by focussing on a number of problems and issues central to politics today. <BR>Drawing on the theoretical concerns brought to light by the 'poststructuralist' thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze and Max Stirner, Newman provides a critical examination of new developments in contemporary political theory: post-Marxism, discourse analysis, new theories of ideology and power, hegemony, radical democracy and psychoanalytic theory. He re-examines the political in light of these developments in theory to suggest new ways of thinking about politics through a reflection on the challenges that confront it. <BR>This will volume will be of great interest to students of postmodernism and poststructuralist theory in political science, philosophy, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.

SOMMARIO

1. Politics of the Ego: Stirner’s Critique of Liberalism 2. Ressentiment and Radical Politics 3. New Reflections on the Theory of Power: A Lacanian Perspective 4. Spectres of Stirner: A Contemporary Critique of Ideology 5. Derrida’s Deconstruction of Authority 6. On the Politics of Violence: Terror, Sovereignty and Law7. Spectres of the Uncanny: the ‘Return of the Repressed’ in Politics 8. Towards a Poststructuralist Politics of Universality Conclusion

AUTORE

Saul Newman is a Research Fellow at UWA and a Lecturer in Politics at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. His research focuses on contemporary and Continental political and social theory. He is the author of From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power (Lexington 2001).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415364560
• Collana: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 192