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Ernesto Laclau

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Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher often described as an inventor of post-Marxist political theory, known for his long collaboration with his partner Chantal Mouffe. From 1986 he served as Professor of Political Theory at the University of Essex, where he founded the graduate programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, drawing on post-structuralist theory, post-analytic thought and psychoanalysis to found what became known as the Essex School of discourse analysis. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1935 1
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Northwestern University, Institutions and Social Structures
Source Ernesto Laclau (Wikipedia)
University of Essex, Institutions and Social Structures
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Nationality

Argentina

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1. Wikidata: Ernesto Laclau
  • Wikidata Q454802, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)
  • Wikidata Q454802, P569 (w-bbfill-smallsix3-0926)
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Ernesto Laclau (Wikipedia)
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    Ernesto Laclau (Spanish: [laˈklaw]; 6 October 1935-13 April 2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher.
  • Associated With: Northwestern University, Article text
    He also held positions at SUNY Buffalo and Northwestern University, both in the US. == Biography == Laclau studied history at the University of Buenos Aires and was a member of the PSIN (Socialist Party of the National Left) until 1969, when the British historian Eric Hobsbawm supported his admission to St Antony's College, Oxford, where he pursued graduate research until 1972.
  • Associated With: University of Essex, Article text
    He studied history at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, graduating with a licenciatura in 1964, and received a PhD from the University of Essex in 1977.
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