Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek

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dc.contributor.authorNash, Matthew Austinen
dc.contributor.committeechairLavin, Chad D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberLuke, Timothy W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWatson, R. Janellen
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:50:52Zen
dc.date.adate2009-12-15en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:50:52Zen
dc.date.issued2009-11-18en
dc.date.rdate2014-12-15en
dc.date.sdate2009-12-02en
dc.description.abstractAccording to Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, our postmodern era and its correlate political problematic requires a shift in positing socialist strategy. Their wager is that by shifting away from essentialist Marxism, and towards a post-Marxist theory of hegemony which they adapt from Gramsci, the analytic for overturning contemporary hegemony will take the form of a radical democratic politics. My contention is that in shifting away from essentialist Marxism through their post-structuralist deconstructive stance, Laclau and Mouffe overstep and make their analytic for socialist strategy impotent. In order to show where Laclau and Mouffe have gone wrong I use primarily the work of Michel Foucault and Slavoj Žižek in order to demonstrate how a post-structuralist theory of ideology need not be a post-Marxist theory of ideology.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-12022009-171138en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12022009-171138/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/46073en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartNash_MA_T_2009.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSlavoj Žižeken
dc.subjectMichel Foucaulten
dc.subjectErnesto Laclauen
dc.subjecthegemonyen
dc.subjectideologyen
dc.subjectpost-Marxismen
dc.titleInterrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižeken
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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