Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15176/vol51no210
On the Relationship between the Mythic and the Political in the Works of Ernesto Laclau
Vedran Jerbić
Abstract
This paper deals with the conceptual relationship between the mythical and the political in the work of the political theorist Ernesto Laclau. The post-structuralist and post-Marxist perspective from which Laclau speaks is imbued with a strong anti-essentialist ethos and focuses on the deconstruction of naturalization and totalization in the signifying practice within the political field. For Laclau, the myth creates “a new space of representation” and thus appears as a critical point of order against the dominant discourse. In order to adequately respond to the problem analysed in this paper, we examine Laclau’s distinction between the society and the social, as well as the concept of the social imaginary. We also briefly look back at some of the authors who influenced the theoretical position of Ernesto Laclau: Sorel, Schmitt, Derrida …
Keywords
myth, political, discourse, post-structuralism, antagonism
Hrčak ID:
130719
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Publication date:
15.12.2014.
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