Discussion with Ernesto Laclau and davide Tarizzo

Discussion with Ernesto Laclau

on Thursday, February 9, from 7 pm to 9 pm

at Kadist
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Ernesto Laclau
Born in 1935 in Buenos Aires, Professor Emeritus at Essex University, he is considered as one of the the leading representatives of contemporary political philosophy in Latin America and the United States.  Author of several essays such as On Populist Reason (Verso, London, 2005).
In On Populist Reason, Ernesto Laclau focuses on the construction of popular identities and how « the people » emerge as a collective actor. Skillfully combining theoretical analysis with a myriad of empirical references from numerous historical and geographical contexts he offers a critical reading of the existing literature on populism, demonstrating its dependency on the theorists of « mass psychology » such as Taine and Freud. He demonstrates the relation of populism to democracy and to the logic of representation, and differentiates his approach from the work of Zizek, Hardt and Negri, and Ranciere. On Populist Reason is an essential reading for all those interested in the question of political identities in present-day societies.

Davide Tarizzo
Professor of moral philosophy at the University of Salerno and of political philosophy at the University of Naples «The Oriental».  He is a scientific Secretary of philosophy to the Italian Institute of the Human sciences (SUM) of Naples. He is the co-director of the international review Política Común. His domains of study are the relations between philosophy and psychoanalysis, «politics»(«policy») and its pathologies in modern times.

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