The failure of the radical democratic imaginary: Žižek versus Laclau and Mouffe on vestigial utopia

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-208

  Brockelman, Thomas ^a  

^a LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

antagonism; anti essentialism; anti utopianism; Chantal Mouffe; Ernesto Laclau; Jacques Lacan; radical democratic imaginary; radical democratic theory; Slavoj i ek; utopia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992857773     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0191453703029002144     Document Type: Article

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