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Ernesto Lac/au
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Fir.;t published by Veno 1996
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Contents
PREFACE vii
ACXNOWLI!OOEMENJ'S ix
1 Beyond Emancipation 1
2 Universalism, Particularism and
the Question of Identity 20
3 Why do Empty Signifiers Matter to Politics? 36
4 Subject of Politics, Politics of the Subject 47
5 'The lime is Out of Joint' 66
6 Power and Representation 84
munity and its Paradoxes:
Richard Rorty's 'Liberal Utopia' lOS
INDEX 125
Preface
With the exception of the last piece in this volUIDe, which was written
in 1989, all the essays were written and published between 1991
and 1995. This period witnessed momentous changes in the world
scene: the restructuring of the world order as a result of the collapse
of the Eastern bloc; the civil war in former Yugoslavia; the growth
of a populist right in Western Europe, whose racist politics were
focused on its opposition to immigrants from Southern Europe and
Northern Africa; the expansion of multicultural protest in Nonh
America; the end of apartheid in South Africa.
If we wanted briefly to characterize the distinctive features of the
first half of the 19905, I would say that they are to be found in the
rebellion of various panicularisms - ethnic, racial, national and s