Radical Democracy

Lars Tønder is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Northwestern UniversityLasse Thomassen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics & International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London

• Introduction: rethinking radical democracy between abundance and lack – Lars Tønder and Lasse ThomassenPart I: Radical democracy: abundance and/or lack?1. The absence at the heart of presence: radical democracy and the ontology of lack – Oliver Marchart 2. Two routes from Hegel – Nathan Widder3. Deleuze and democratic politics – Paul Patton4. The wild patience of radical democracy: beyond Žižek’s lack – Romand Coles5. Theorising hegemony: between deconstruction and psychoanalysis – Aletta J. Norval6. In/exclusions: towards a radical democratic approach to exclusion – Lasse ThomassenPart II: The politics of radical democracy7. For an agonistic public sphere – Chantal Mouffe8. In parliament with things – Jane Bennet9. The radical democratic possibilities of popular culture – Jon Simons10. Radical and plural democracy: in defence of right/left and public reason – Torben Bech Dyrberg11. Negativity and radical democracy: radical democracy beyond reoccupation and conformism – Yannis Stavrakakis12. Inessential commonality: immanence, transcendence, abundance – Lars Tønder13. True democracy: Marx, political subjectivity and anarchic meta-politics – Simon CritchleyPart III: Afterwords14. Immanence, abundance, democracy – William E. Connolly15. The future of radical democracy – Ernesto LaclauIndex