ON POPULIST REASON
Book ID/图书代码： 13850014B69007
English Summary/英文概要： In this new and highly original work Ernesto Laclau continues the philosophical and political exploration initiated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time and Emancipation(s). his topic here is the construction of popular identities, conceived in a wide sense covering the ensemble of strategies making possible the emergence of the ’people’ as a collective actor. The book skilfully combines theoretical analysis with a myriad of empirical references from numerous historical and geographical contexts. The first part presents a critical reading of the existing literature on populism, demonstrating its dependency on the basic categories elaborated by theorists of ’mass psychology’, from Taine and Le Bon to Tarde, McDougall and Freud. The second part forms the main theoretical core of the work, where the question of the emergence of the ’people’ as a political and social force is treated. Several categories already present in Laclau’s work - such as empty and floating signifiers, hegemony and heterogeneity - are developed here in new and innovative directions. In particular, the relation of populism to democracy and to the logic of representation is given special emphasis. The third part is devoted to particular case studies of both the conditions leading to the emergence of the ’people’ and the obstacles preventing its formation. Finally, in a concluding chapter, Laclau locates the question of popular identities within the context of a globalized world and differentiates his approach from those of other theoreticians such as Zizek, Hardt and Negri and Ranciere. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the question of political identities in present-day societies.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《民粹主义》是埃内斯托•拉克劳最新原创作品，延续了其以往作品《霸权主义与社会主义理论》，《对当今时代的新反思》，《解放》等的哲学和政治探索。在《民粹主义》中，埃内斯托以普遍身份的组成为主题，融入了许多概念使得“人民”的形象更丰满。《民粹主义》巧妙地结合了理论分析和大量的历史和地理实用参考资料。书中的第一章节带领读者统观了现存有关民粹主义的文学，分析了其对“从众心理”基础理论的依赖度。第二章节介绍了本书核心理论体系，及“人民”作为政治和社会力量概念的首次登台。许多门类在拉克劳的作品中已经有所展现——例如空洞的标志物，霸权主义和不均衡性，并以更为创新的方式深入探讨了这些问题。尤其注重分析了民粹主义和民权及表象逻辑的关系。第三章节则具体介绍了催生“人民”这一概念的条件以及阻止其继续形成的障碍。在最后的总结章节，拉克劳将普遍身份的问题置于全球化的大环境中，并将自己的方法和齐扎科，哈特，奈格里和朗西埃等理论家的区分开来。这本书对当今社会政治身份感兴趣的读者来说是必读物。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：“与当今学术力量和观点有力的抗衡。”——《今日的马克思主义理论》——写在封面上的话
"A brilliant tour de force of scholarship and argument." - Marxism Today" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
About the Author/作者介绍： 埃内斯托•拉克劳是埃塞克斯大学政府政治理论系教授，同时也是纽约水牛城州立大学比较文学系教授。他在西欧，南美和拉丁美洲等地授课，并且是埃塞克斯大学“意识形态和论述研究”以及“理论研究”博士项目的成立者和主席。埃内斯托还创作了《霸权主义与社会主义理论》（与查坦•墨菲合著），《对当今时代的新反思》，《解放》以及《偶然性》，《霸权及普遍性》（与朱迪斯•巴特勒和齐扎科合著）
Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government, University of Essex, and in the Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York Buffalo. He has lectured in many universities throughout Western Europe, North America and Latin America and was the founder and director of the doctoral program in Ideology and Discourse Analysis and The Centre for Theoretical Studies, Both at the University of Essex. He is the author, among other works, of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (co-authored with Chantal Mouffe), New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time, Emancipation(s), and Contingency, Hegemony and Universality (co-authored with Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek).
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