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The Test of the Political: A Conversation with Claude Lefort
Author(s) -
Rosanvallon Pierre
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
constellations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1467-8675
pISSN - 1351-0487
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8675.2011.00668.x
Subject(s) - conversation , citation , test (biology) , politics , library science , computer science , linguistics , political science , philosophy , law , paleontology , biology
Claude Lefort was one of the great figures of the renewal of political and social theory in the second half of the 20th century. His thinking—very different from that of Rawls, Dworkin, or even Habermas—was tied to events, to the attempt to elucidate them, and with them the conditions of our emancipation. In a conversation with Pierre Ronsavallon, he retraces his intellectual trajectory and the great themes of his work.