Hegemony and socialist strategy : towards a radical democratic politics /

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To what extent does it call into the question the idea of social totality that underpinned Marxism and many other socialist theories? Does the concept of hegemony imply a new logic that goes beyond the essentialism of classical Marxist thought? These are some of the questions that this now seminal b...

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Main Author: Laclau, Ernesto
Other Authors: Mouffe, Chantal
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London : Verso, 1985.
Subjects:
Socialism > Philosophy.
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