Overview
- Follows the intellectual journey of the French philosopher Claude Lefort in the 1950s to his later writings
- Advances a new reading of Lefort’s philosophy method to the analysis of society and politics
- Presents a political phenomenology, an ontology alternative to readings of the immanence and autonomy of social
Part of the book series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose (POPHPUPU)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book proposes a new interpretation of Claude Lefort’s thought focusing on his phenomenological method. Although all scholars recognize the influence of Merleau-Ponty, so far no one has demonstrated the fundamental coherence between Merleau-Ponty’s theory and the main concepts proposed by Lefort; in particular between the concept of institution and the definitions of social and democracy. If Merleau-Ponty uses the idea of institution to think beyond the division between subject and object, to think together continuity and difference, permanence and change, this same concept allows Lefort to understand society as both conflict and unity. From this starting point, this study will attempt to clarify Lefort’s concept of the political and his interpretations of modernity, humanism, and the work of Niccolò Machiavelli. These very concepts will show the difference from structuralism, Michel Foucault’s contemporary theory and theories of immanence. At the same time this study highlightsan internal tension in Lefort’s own thinking: between autonomy and experience, institution and insurgence.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mattia Di Pierro is a Post-Doc researcher at the Philosophy Department of the University of Milan, Italy. His research mainly concerns contemporary political thought, theories of democracy and of modernity. He is the author of L’esperienza del mondo: Claude Lefort e la fenomenologia del politico (ETS 2020) and numerous articles on history of political thought and political philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Claude Lefort's Political Philosophy
Book Subtitle: Democracy, Indeterminacy, Institution
Authors: Mattia Di Pierro
Series Title: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36378-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36377-1Published: 22 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36380-1Due: 22 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36378-8Published: 21 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-714X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7158
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Political History