IDENTITY AND ANTAGONISM IN ERNESTO LACLAU’S THOUGHT
Keywords:
Ernesto Laclau, the subject, the political, identity and differenceAbstract
In the present work, we will determine the fundamental aspects of Laclau's thought by considering the central role that the subject and the other have in it, both in the individual and in the collective or political sphere. Although the difference is a condition for unfolding consciousness, we will show that Laclau's conception of the subject presents certain insufficiencies. They become especially relevant when addressing the political. It is pertinent to warn, as Laclau does, regarding the limits of a political conception whose base is a sovereign individual and collective identity. However, one must pay attention to the unitary meaning that also defines individual and collective existence. Having made this caveat, we will show in what sense Laclau's antagonistic political conception is adequate for a non-reductionist understanding of the indeterminacy and otherness that are part of the political and that make its strict reduction to rational parameters impossible and undesirable.
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