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MAÎTRE-PENSEUR CLAUDE LEFORT (1924-2010)

Dragutin Lalović ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The article provides basic information on the course of life and theoretical
work of contemporary French political thinker Claude Lefort (1924-2010).
Particular emphasis is put on the contents and importance of Lefort’s theoretical
trilogy on Stalinist totalitarianism, which consists of the following books:
Elements of a Critique of Bureaucracy (1971), One Man Too Many. Reflections
on “The Gulag Archipelago” (1976), and Democratic Invention (1981).
These works contain an original and profound understanding of such a type
of order as a modern social formation. Such research shows that true insight
into the political and into democracy is possible only on the basis of thorough
investigation and understanding of totalitarianism.

Keywords

political thought; totalitarianism; democracy; Marx; H. Arendt; Tocqueville

Hrčak ID:

74118

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/74118

Publication date:

18.11.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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