| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Nash, Matthew Austin
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| URN |
etd-12022009-171138 |
| Title |
Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek |
| Degree |
Master of Arts |
| Department |
Political Science |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Lavin, Chad D. |
Committee Chair |
| Luke, Timothy W. |
Committee Member |
| Watson, R. Janell |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- ideology
- hegemony
- Ernesto Laclau
- Michel Foucault
- Slavoj Žižek
- post-Marxism
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| Date of Defense |
2009-11-18 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
According to Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, our postmodern era and its correlate political problematic requires a shift in positing socialist strategy. Their wager is that by shifting away from essentialist Marxism, and towards a post-Marxist theory of hegemony which they adapt from Gramsci, the analytic for overturning contemporary hegemony will take the form of a radical democratic politics. My contention is that in shifting away from essentialist Marxism through their post-structuralist deconstructive stance, Laclau and Mouffe overstep and make their analytic for socialist strategy impotent. In order to show where Laclau and Mouffe have gone wrong I use primarily the work of Michel Foucault and Slavoj Žižek in order to demonstrate how a post-structuralist theory of ideology need not be a post-Marxist theory of ideology.
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