This reading group is aimed to explore some of the major thinkers and themes working broadly in the area of “Radical Democratic Theory.” For more information, or if you’d like to join one of the sessions, please contact Usdin Martínez.
Fall 2020
- October 19: Chantal Mouffe
- With Ernesto Laclau. 2014. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. New York: Verso.
“Preface to the Second Edition” (vii–xix);
“Introduction” (xxi–xxv);
Chapter 3, “Beyond the Positivity of the Social: Antagonisms and Hegemony” (79–132);
Chapter 4, “Hegemony and Radical Democracy” (133–177). - 1996. “Democracy, Power, and the Political.” In Democracy and Difference, edited by Seyla Benhabib, 245–256. Princeton: Princeton UP.
- 2013. Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically. New York: Verso.
Chapter 4, “Radical Politics Today” (65–84);
“Conclusion” (107–128).
- With Ernesto Laclau. 2014. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. New York: Verso.
- December 1: Claude Lefort
- 1988. Democracy and Political Theory. Translated by David Macey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Chapter 1, “The Question of Democracy” (9–20);
Chapter 2, “Human Rights and the Welfare State” (21–44). - 1986. The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism. Edited by John B. Thompson. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Chapter 7, “Politics and Human Rights” (239–272);
Chapter 9, “The Image of the Body and Totalitarianism” (292–306).
- 1988. Democracy and Political Theory. Translated by David Macey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Winter 2021
- January 25: Jacques Rancière
- 2004. Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy. Translated by Julie Rose. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- 2001. “Ten Theses on Politics.” Translated by Rachel Bowlby and Davide Panagia. Theory & Event 5 (3).
- Next Meeting: Antonio Negri
- 1999. Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State. Translated by Maurizia Boscagli. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.