Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

Judith P. Butler & Ernesto Laclau & Slavoj Žižek

Language: English

Publisher: Verso

Published: Jul 15, 2000

Description:

In an unusual experiment, three theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as separate contributions that respond to one another, range over the Hegelian legacy in contemporary critical theory, the theoretical dilemmas of multiculturalism, the universalism-versus-particularism debate, the strategies of the Left in a global economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical social theory.