Politics, polemics and academics: An interview by Paul Bowman

Parallax

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 93-107

  Laclau, Ernesto ^a,b  

^a Department of Politics ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 25444451735     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135346499249722     Document Type: Note

References (13)

1. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London: Verso, 1985).
2. Slavoj Zizek, 'Beyond Discourse Analysis' in New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time, ed. E. Laclau (London: Verso, 1990), p.249.
3. The wording, at the very least, of this question is directly indebted to the argument of John Mowitt in the introduction of Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object (London: Duke, 1992), specifically p.17.
4. Ernesto Laclau, ed., The Making of Political Identities (London: Verso, 1994).
5. Jacques Derrida, 'Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism', deconstruction and pragmatism, p.83.
6. i.e. 'The [hegemonic] fratriarchy may include cousins and sisters, but... including may also come to mean neutralising... forgetting, for example, with 'the best of all intentions', that the sister will never provide a docile example for the concept of fraternity. This is why the concept must be rendered docile, and there we have the whole of political education', Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship (London: Verso, 1997), viii.
7. I had suggested that Derrida's thinking of friendship might now problematise somewhat Laclau's assertions in his essay on Richard Rorty's 'Liberal Utopia' in Emancipation (s) (London: Verso, 1996), p.105 ff., and Laclau's identification of the presence of the element of force in persuasion, citing passages on p.112, and pp.116-7.
8. Laclau, 'Undecidability and Power' at the conference, 'Politics, Friendship and 'Democracy to come': Jacques Derrida's Politics of Friendship' (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, November 1997)
9. See the conference report in parallax 8 (Vol. 4, No 3, July-September 1998), p.159.
10. Laclau, Emancipation (s), p.116.
11. Paul Bowman, 'Deconstructing Pragmatism: A War of Position', parallax 9, neo-pragmatism and new romanticisms, eds. O. Cruz and R. Guins (Vol. 2, No. 4, October 1998), pp.144-45.
12. Laclau, New Reflections, p.208.
13. See, for instance, Zizek's 'Beyond Discourse Analysis' in Laclau's New Reflections.