Introduction: What is Antagonism?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction: What is Antagonism? 1
5. 1. ‘What’s Going on with Being?’: Laclau and the Return of Political Ontology 8
6. Part I. Thinking the Political
7. 2. Marx on the Beach: An Intellectual History of Antagonism 35
8. 3. Beyond the ‘War Hypothesis’: Polemology in Foucault, Stiegler and Loraux 63
9. Part II. Thinking Politics
10. 4. The Restless Nature of the Social: On the Micro-Confl ictuality of Everyday Life 85
11. 5. Politics and the Popular: Protest and Culture in Laclau’s Theory of Populism 109
12. 6. On Minimal Politics: Conditions of Acting Politically 129
13. Part III. Politicising Thought
14. 7. The Final Name of Being: Thinking as Refl ective Intervention 155
15. 8. Being as Acting: The Primacy of Politics and the Politics of Thought 181
16. Conclusion: Ostinato Rigore, or, the Ethics of Intellectual Engagement 206
17. Notes 218
18. Bibliography 241
19. Index 255