"The Signifier, the Role of Naming, and the Logic of Antagonism"
Ernesto Laclau, Chair of Political Theory at the University of Essex, will deliver the final lecture in the inaugural EGO Fall Speakers Series. His lecture will be held in the Killian Room, 500 Hall of Languages, at 3:15 PM on Thursday, November 30.
Professor Laclau is Director of the doctoral program in Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He also is currently University Professor of the Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University. He is coauthor, with Chantal Mouffe, of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Toward a Radical Democratic Politics (Verso, 1985). His numerous other works include New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (Verso, 1990) and Emancipation(s) (Verso, 1996), and he is the editor of The Making of Political Identities (Verso, 1994). His latest book, On Populist Reason, seeks to understand how the construction of a people relates to other forms of political subjectivity—classes, corporations and other forms of association.
