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The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4823-1
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January 2010, Polity
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Acknowledgments.

Foreword by Slavoj Zizek.

Introduction: The Excess of Everyday Life.

Chapter One: What Does the "Social" in Social Change Mean?

Chapter Two: Extimate Causality and the Social Subject of Excess.

Chapter Three: The Social Structures of Bourdieu and de Certeau.

Chapter Four: Butler's Embodied Agency.

Chapter Five: Laclau's Radical Democracy.

Chapter Six: Zizek's Political Act.

Chapter Seven: Sinthomic Ethics and Revolutionary Groups.

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