Claude Lefort's political philosophy : democracy, indeterminacy, institution / Mattia Di Pierro.
Di Pierro, Mattia, author.
2023
JA71 .D56 2023
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Title Claude Lefort's political philosophy : democracy, indeterminacy, institution / Mattia Di Pierro.
Author Di Pierro, Mattia, author.
ISBN 9783031363788 electronic book
3031363787
3031363779
9783031363771
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36378-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 258 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-36378-8 doi
Call Number JA71 .D56 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.092
Summary This book proposes a new interpretation of Claude Leforts thought focusing on his phenomenological method. Although all scholars recognize the influence of Merleau-Ponty, so far no one has demonstrated the fundamental coherence between Merleau-Pontys theory and the main concepts proposed by Lefort; in particular between the concept of institution and the definitions of social and democracy. If Merleau-Ponty uses the idea of institution to think beyond the division between subject and object, to think together continuity and difference, permanence and change, this same concept allows Lefort to understand society as both conflict and unity. From this starting point, this study will attempt to clarify Leforts concept of the political and his interpretations of modernity, humanism, and the work of Niccol Machiavelli. These very concepts will show the difference from structuralism, Michel Foucaults contemporary theory and theories of immanence. At the same time this study highlights an internal tension in Leforts own thinking: between autonomy and experience, institution and insurgence. Mattia Di Pierro is a Post-Doc researcher at the Philosophy Department of the University of Milan, Italy. His research mainly concerns contemporary political thought, theories of democracy and of modernity. He is the author of Lesperienza del mondo: Claude Lefort e la fenomenologia del politico (ETS 2020) and numerous articles on history of political thought and political philosophy.
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Series Political philosophy and public purpose.
Available in Other Form Claude Lefort's Political Philosophy
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Intro
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Claude Lefort's Essential Bibliography
Contents
1 Introduction
Event and Form
What About Lefort?
References
2 Socialisme ou Barbarie
The Chaulieu-Montal Tendency
Socialisme ou Barbarie
A Phenomenology of the Proletarian Experience
The Role of Theory
Lefort or Castoriadis: The Proletariat, the Party, and the Organization
References
3 The Symbolic Dimension of the Social
Phenomenological Marxism
The Social as Culture
A Political Issue at the Bottom of the Social
The Social Is the Real, or Marx's Mistake

The Symbolic and the Political
The Symbolic Institution of the Social
References
4 A Sociology of a Divided Society: Alienation, Ideology and a Project for a Study of Democracy
Alienation, or a Sociology of the Division of the Social
Ideology
From the Proletariat to the People
References
5 The Modern Symbolic Change
The Image of the Body and Heteronomy
Ancien RĂ©gime Societies and the Theological-Political
The State, Disincorporation, and the Modern Form of Society
Dante, Civic Humanism and the Birth of Modernity
References
6 Niccolò Machiavelli

The Critique of Tradition, or the Loss of Foundation
The Conspiracy: A New Politics
The Conflict
The Role of the People
Power, Imaginary and the Foundation
The Original Division of the Social
References
7 The Political and the Institution of the Social
Structure or Institution
Interpretation or Archaeology: Lefort and Foucault
Against Theories of Immanence
References
8 Democracy
The Democratic Form of Society
Modernity and Democracy
Totalitarianism
On Revolution: Change and Foundation in Democratic Society
References
Index

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