What's Left of Philosophy 3 | Laclau and Mouffe, or How we learned to hate class and love Derrida
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Dec 18, 2020 AI Snips
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Influence of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
- Laclau and Mouffe's Hegemony and Socialist Strategy significantly impacted post-1990s leftist thought.
- The book inadvertently contributed to the dismissal of class analysis and economic interests in political discourse.
Critique of "The Economic"
- Laclau and Mouffe are partly responsible for the marginalization of economic considerations in leftist discourse.
- The authors treat "the economic" with disdain, italicizing it as if it were an insult.
Critique of Marxism
- Laclau and Mouffe critique Marxism as essentialist, reductionist, and totalizing, hindering political contingency and agency.
- They argue that the working class is a barrier to socialist politics and that Marxism fails to address new social movements.