Claude Lefort

1. Introduction
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Part I. Claude Lefort, A Close Reader: Intellectual Influences and Dialogues

2. Claude Lefort: A Political Biography
Dick Howard

3. Lefort as Phenomenologist of the Political
Bernard Flynn

4. Lefort and Machiavelli
Newton Bignotto

5. Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division
Samuel Moyn

6. Claude Lefort as Reader of Leo Strauss
Claudia Hilb

Part II. Interpreting the Political: Events and Political Thought

7. Claude Lefort, the Practice and Thought of Disincorporation
Gilles Bataillon

8. The Style Claude Lefort
Michael B. Smith

9. Lefort, the Philosopher of 1989
Andrew Arato

10. Rethinking the Politics of Human Rights and Democracy with and beyond Lefort
Jean L. Cohen

11. Lefort and Tocqueville on the Possibility of Democratic Despotism
Steven Bilakovics

Part III. Symbolic Mutations: Lefort’s Influence in Contemporary Democratic Theory

12. Thinking Democracy beyond Regimes: Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State
Marc G. Doucet

13. Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension
Warren Breckman

14. Democracy beyond the Political: Reconsidering the Social
Brian C. J. Singer

15. Lefort and the Fate of Radical Democracy
Jeremy Valentine

16. The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political
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Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Science