Laclau and Mouffe on the (Im)Possibility of Society Cover Image

Laclau i Mouffe o (ne)mogućnosti društva
Laclau and Mouffe on the (Im)Possibility of Society

Author(s): Gordan Maslov
Subject(s): Review
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: Ernesto Laclau; Chantal Mouffe; antagonism; hegemony; ideology; logics of equivalence; logics of difference; point of suture

Summary/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”.

  • Issue Year: 29/2009
  • Issue No: 01/113
  • Page Range: 179-190
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian