Laclau and Mouffe's hegemonic project: the story so far

Townshend, Jules (2004) Laclau and Mouffe's hegemonic project: the story so far. Political studies, 52 (2). pp. 269-288. ISSN 1467-9248

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Abstract

This paper seeks to do two things: first, to map out in a broad way Laclau and Mouffe's intellectual development, since the publication of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy in 1985, and how they have created a following within academia; and second, to evaluate their 'hegemonic' endeavours so far. I argue that there is a place for a post-structuralist approach to the study of political ideologies and the 'political', but that the project as a whole is unlikely to achieve its intellectual and political ambitions.