Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction: Post-Marxism and the Symbolic Turn 1
6. 1. The Symbolic Dimension and the Politics of Young Hegelianism 24
7. 2. The Fate of the Symbolic from Romantic Socialism to a Marxism in extremis 57
8. 3. From the Symbolic Turn to the Social Imaginary. Castoriadis’s Project of Autonomy 96
9. 4. Democracy Between Disenchantment and Political Theology. French Post-Marxism and the Return of Religion 139
10. 6. The Post-Marx of the Letter. Laclau and Mouffe Between Postmodern Melancholy and Post-Marxist Mourning 183
11. 7. Of Empty Places. Žižek and Laclau; or, The end of the affair 216
12. Epilogue 262
13. Notes 289
14. Index 341