Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, first published in 1985, is one of the works at the center of current developments in the world of socialist thought. Laclau and Mouffe, who wrote a new foreword to the second edition dated 2001, trace the historical traces of the endless crises of socialism while examining the series of changes extending from the eighties to the two thousand years. The authors, who broke new ground in the field of political and social theory with their "radical and pluralistic democracy" design, examine the concept of hegemony on a historical axis extending from the important debates in the socialist circles of the 19th century to today's new forms of struggle, and reveal the importance of today's social struggles in terms of democratic theory.

Laclau and Mouffe, who express effectively and from a new perspective the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, the relations of new social and political identities that emerged with the transformation in the last phase of capitalism, and the turmoil of the leftist imagination that is rapidly losing its foundations, are the names that ignited the "post-Marxism" debates. Opposing Marxism's economic determinism and placing class struggle at the center of areas of social opposition, the duo brings to the fore a pluralism where all oppositions can be expressed freely and which enables the unity of opposing forces.

This masterpiece, which brings a pluralistic approach to classical oppositions and paves the way for us to understand hegemony relations in the context of today's social conflicts, offers "timeless" answers to questions of all times.



Number of Pages: 304

Year of Printing: 2008


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Project Editor: Ernesto Laclau
Project Editor: Chantal Mouffe

Number of Pages: 304

First Printing Year: 2008

Language Turkish