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Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau

Oliver Marchart

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Introduction: On the Absent Ground of the Social 1. The Contours of 'Left Heideggerianism': Post-Foundationalism and Contingency 2. Politics and the Political: Genealogy of a Conceptual Difference 3. Retracing the Political Difference: Jean-Luc Nancy 4. The Machiavellian Moment Retheorized: Claude Lefort 5. The State and the Politics of Truth: Alain Badiou 6. Political Difference and Ontological Difference: Ernesto Laclau Conclusion: Founding Post-Foundational: A Political Ontology.

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Key concepts: Politics, Contingency, Foundationalism, Ontology, Epistemology, Political philosophy, Philosophy, Political science