Ernesto Laclau reading Michel Foucault : Foucault as a target for hegemony

In contrast to the tendency of other presently celebrated post-structuralist intellectuals, such as Giorgio Agamben and up to a certain extent Judith Butler, who make persistent efforts to support their work through the provision of frequent references to the work of Michel Foucault, Ernesto Laclau, the first popular post-structuralist theorist on British soil, opted to provide only a few references to Foucault, which actually were not always equally approbatory of the latter’s work. By drawing attention to these few references, this article aims to thematize Laclau’s relationship with Foucault as a quite interesting case for the understanding of present-day flows in the exchange of ideas o…

Reinhart Koselleck’s work on crisis

Reinhart Koselleck's celebrated work on the concept of crisis highlights trends present in the intellectual context of its time and bears a significant impact in contemporary academic trends. The essay analyses Koselleck‟s choices in the study of “crisis” from Antiquity until the 20th century and draws conclusions on methodology, disciplinary trends and socio-political consequences of academic work. peerReviewed

Freedom and its diachrony

Probably everyone involved with the related disciplines in the humanities for some time knows how difficult it is to discuss about liberty and freedom beyond one’s area of expertize or the inclinat...

A new Weber for the international academic audience

Reading Weber and the Claims of the Weberians

A New Weber for the International Academic Audience

It has been almost a century since Max Weber’s Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft was first published and for the first time we have an English translation of the text as it most truly originally stood. T...

Out With the ‘Anti-Memorandum’, In With the ‘New’

Since Syriza’s rise to power in January 2015, a new landscape has rapidly emerged in Greek poli- tics. Greek political parties have had to reshape their messages on the road to these elections. The shifts in the parties’ discourse in the September elections can be highlighted through an overview of the scheme we have suggested in our previous works on party and journalist discourse in the ‘period of crisis’, in which three sets of opposing identifications (comparable to Laclau and Mouffe’s ‘antago- nisms’ and to the classic Lipset and Rokkan’s ‘cleavages’) were seen as providing an encompassing scheme for the ways through which Greek opinion leaders tried to direct their audiences toward on…