Review article

Laclau and Mouffe on the (Im)Possibility of Society

Gordan Maslov ; Split, Croatia

Abstract

This paper has for it’s purpose theoretical introduction into the work of two postmarxist theoreticians of politics, Ernesto Lacalau and Chantal Mouffe. We will focus on their collaboratory work, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, whose theses about the basic “impossibility of society” creates the foundations for the possibility of Lacanian theorizing of ideology, as well the notion of ‘Politics’, or the very notion of ‘Society’. Using Antonio Gramsci’s notion of hegemony, authors try to define the key field for the construction of political community. Their theory is contextualized as a psychoanalitical discourse, as well as discourse known in social sciences by the name of “social constructionism”.

Keywords

Ernesto Laclau; Chantal Mouffe; antagonism; hegemony; ideology; logics of equivalence; logics of difference; point of suture

Hrčak ID:

41076

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/41076

Publication date:

22.4.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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