Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary
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Anna Marie Smith is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University.
She is the author of New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain 1968–1990. L A C L AU A N D M O U F F E The radical democratic imaginary Anna Marie Smith London and New York First published 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1998 Anna Marie Smith All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Smith, Anna Marie. Laclau and Mouffe: the radical democratic imaginary/Anna Marie Smith. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Democracy. 2. Radicalism. 3. Laclau, Ernesto. 4. Mouffe, Chantal. Political science—History—20th century. I. Title. JC423.S65 1998 321.8’01–dc21 976–53303 CIP ISBN 0-203-00671-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-16076-2 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-10059-3 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-10060-7 (pbk) FOR ZILLAH vii C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Retrieving democracy: the radical democratic imaginary 6 2 Essentialism, non-essentialism and democratic leadership: from Lenin to Gramsci 42 3 Subject positions, articulation and the subversion of essentialism 84 4 Self-determination, community and citizenship 116 5 Power and hegemony 151 Conclusion: multicultural difference and the political 177 Notes 203 Bibliography 213 Index 233 ix A C K N OW L E D G M E N T S It is my pleasure to acknowledge the assistance of the friends and colleagues who made this book possible. I would like to thank Bob Gallagher, formerly of the University of Toronto, and Sue Golding, Greenwich University, for introducing me to Laclau and Mouffe’s work. Juan Maiguashca, York University, generously volunteered to lead me through an independent study course on Laclau and Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy during the spring semester of 1986, when I was a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. I drew inspiration as well from Frank Cunningham’s Contemporary Political Philosophy seminar that was held at the University of Toronto at the same time. My deepest thanks to Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe who were my Ph.D. advisors and intellectual mentors when I was a graduate student in Ernesto’s Ideology and Discourse Analysis seminar at the University of Essex, 1987–91, and who read and commented extensively on the manuscript. My writing was influenced by various discussions that were held at the Society for the Humanities during my fellowship there during the 1995–6 academic year. I am particularly indebted to Dominick LaCapra for sharing his work on Lacanian psychoanalysis and to Etienne Balibar for allowing me to attend his seminar on historicity, power and violence. Simon Critchley invited me to write this book and remained an encouraging supporter throughout the project. Lynne Segal, Jeffrey Weeks and Mandy Merck assisted me with my research on the British Left. Zillah Eisenstein challenged me to adopt a more sophisticated grammar vis-à-vis the complexity of contemporary social forces and political practice. Patty Zimmerman encouraged me to consider the contradictory and uneven effects of cultural globalization for democratic theory. Aletta Norval, Peggy Kohn, Paul Apostolidis, Jeannie Morefield, Jodi Dean, Nancy Hirschmann, Alison Shonkwiler, Susan Buck-Morss, Dominick LaCapra, Martin Bernal and Isaac Kramnick read the text and provided valuable comments. Julie Fendo submitted the final draft to editorial treatment in her capacity as my research assistant. Judith Butler and an anonymous reader were especially generous in their detailed critical assessment of the manuscript. Tony Bruce at Routledge remained A C K N OW L E D G M E N T S x a patient and helpful correspondent throughout the project. I accept full responsibility for the errors and weaknesses that remain in the text. I would also like to acknowledge the sources of institutional support for this book. My thanks to the Cornell University Humanities Council which provided two grants that allowed me to conduct research in Britain. A faculty fellowship at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities, release from the Department of Government to take up that fellowship and a semester of study leave provided by the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell created favorable conditions for my work. I would also like to thank Verso for kindly granting me permission to quote extensively from the following texts: Ernesto Laclau, Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory: Download 0.72 Mb. 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