Politics as construction of the unthinkable

• Ernesto Laclau ^[1] ; Marianne Liisberg ^[1] ; Arthur Borriello ^[2] ; Benjamin De Cleen ^[3]
  1. [1] Aarhus University

     Aarhus University

     Dinamarca

     
  2. [2] Université Libre de Bruxelles

     Université Libre de Bruxelles

     Arrondissement Brussel-Hoofdstad, Bélgica

     
  3. [3] Vrije Universiteit Brussel

     Vrije Universiteit Brussel

     Arrondissement Brussel-Hoofdstad, Bélgica

     

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• Localización: Journal of language and politics, ISSN 1569-2159, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 2021, págs. 10-21
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article is the English translation of a text originally published by Ernesto Laclau in French in 1981 as part of the proceedings of the colloquium Materialités Discursives held in Nanterre on 24–26 April 1980. In this text, Ernesto Laclau reflects on the subject of hegemony as a discursively constructed phenomenon. Building on research on the discursive construction of the acceptability of popular front politics in 1935 during the Seventh Congress of the Komintern, the author proposes a number of broader arguments on the notion of antagonism and on some of the problems related to the Marxist conception of totality.