Claude Lefort is one of the leading social and political theorists in France today. This anthology of his most important work published over the last four decad
Lefort's analysis of contemporary political events are often related to a consideration of one or more of the major contributions to the history of political th
This study of Claude Lefort offers an account of Lefort's accomplishment - its unique merits, its relation to political philosophy within the Continental tradit
Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled. Machiavelli changed the terms of
A Social Theory of the Nation-State construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the na