Post-foundational political thought: political difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau
In: Taking on the political
This book presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between?politics? (the practice of conventional politics: the political system or political forms of action) and?the political? (a much more radical aspect which cannot be restricted to the realms of institutional politics). It is also the first introductory overview of post-foundationalism and the tradition of?left Heideggerianism?: the political thought of contemporary theorists who make frequent use of the idea of political difference: Jean-Luc Nancy, Claude Lefort, Alain Badiou and Ernesto Laclau. After an ove