Ernesto Laclau

Argentine political theorist

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Ernesto Laclau was an Argentine political theorist known for his work on hegemony and discourse theory. He explored how dominant groups maintain power not just through force, but by shaping ideas and norms to be seen as common sense. Laclau argued that this "intellectual and moral leadership" is crucial for maintaining social and political order, particularly within capitalist societies. His theories have been applied to understanding international relations and the influence of cultural dominance.12

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Slavoj Žižek
The Sublime Object of Ideology
…by the Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau, who suggested that the nonlinear structure of the text is faithful to the “retroactive” effect in Lacanian psychoanalysis, in which later events reframe and transform one’s understanding of what went before. The book’s title is indebted to Lacan’s objet petit a (literally, “object…
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…by the Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau, who suggested that the nonlinear structure of the text is faithful to the “retroactive” effect in Lacanian psychoanalysis, in which later events reframe and transform one’s understanding of what went before. The book’s title is indebted to Lacan’s objet petit a (literally, “object…
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