The politics of antagonism

Mark Devenney; David Howarth; Aletta J. Norval; Yannis Stavrakakis; Oliver Marchart; Paula Biglieri; Gloria Perelló

doi:10.1057/cpt.2016.8

The politics of antagonism

Mark Devenney, David Howarth, Aletta J. Norval, Yannis Stavrakakis, Oliver Marchart, Paula Biglieri, Gloria Perelló

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Abstract

In perhaps the last piece completed before his sudden death in April 2014 ErnestoLaclau returned to the concept of antagonism (Laclau, 2015, pp. 101–125). Itsconceptual origins lie in his immanent critique of, and break with, Marxism in the1970s. Laclau concluded that antagonism points to the limits of social objectivity andlinked this to an original political ontology (see Hansen, 2016 and Marchart, 2016).The development of this concept is, in effect, the story of Laclau’s theoreticaljourney. In tracking this conceptual history I demonstrate its continued pertinence tocontemporary political theory and link it to the rethinking of representation, toidealisation in political theory, and to the understanding of anti-austerity politics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	329-335
Number of pages	7
Journal	Contemporary Political Theory
Volume	15
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2016.8
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2016

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Contemporary Political Theory. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Devenney, M., Howarth, D., Norval, A. et al. Contemp Polit Theory (2016) 15: 304. https://doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2016.8 is available online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fcpt.2016.8

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