Laclau

Ernesto Laclau is an Argentinian political theorist, but he has development most of his intellectual life in England. He was born on 1936 in Buenos Aires. He studied History in the UBA Faculty of Philosophy and Letters where he participed in different political and students organizations. Later, Laclau received a scholarship in Orford University supported by Eric Hobsbawn. In England he made his career as teacher in the Essex University mainly in the analysis discourse area.

Laclau had a lot of theorical developments, but the most important of them is the Hegemony Theory. This included different topics like the ‘subject’ status, the formation of social identities, the demands as the unit of the society, among others. His analysis of populism is one of his recent works, in his book On Pupulist Reason he considered the populism as a particular phenomenon. It is a manner of construct politics from the people against the power.

I like a lot the Laclau works, as you remember he was my presentation topic in this course. I enjoy read him cause his writing is very clear even when his ideas are not a simple thing. His concepts are for me a right way to understand the society and the politic, and its make us to question about our own ideas.