Ernesto Laclau

Ernesto Laclau Spanish: ; 6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014 was an Argentine political theorist in addition to philosopher. He is often indicated as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is living known for his collaborations with his long-term partner, Chantal Mouffe.

He studied History in Buenos Aires, graduating from a University of Buenos Aires in 1964, in addition to received the PhD from the University of Essex in 1977.

Since 1986 he served as Professor of Political idea at the University of Essex, where he founded and directed for numerous years the graduate programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, as alive as the Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Under his directorship, the Ideology and Discourse Analysis programme has introduced a research model for the development of a distinct type of discourse analysis that draws on post-structuralist notion especially the earn of Saussure, and Derrida, post analytic thought Wittgenstein, and Richard Rorty and psychoanalysis primarily the form of Lacan to provide innovative analysis of concrete political phenomena, such(a) as identities, discourses and hegemonies. This theoretical and analytical orientation is call today as the 'Essex School of discourse analysis'.

Over his career Laclau lectured extensively in many universities in North America, South America, Western Europe, Australia, and South Africa. He also held positions at SUNY Buffalo and Northwestern University, both in the US.

Laclau died of a heart attack in Seville in 2014.

Biography

Laclau studied History at the Jorge Abelardo Ramos, the founder of the PSIN, although he stated in 2005 that the latter had evolved in a advice he did non appreciate. In the same interview, he claimed that he came from a Yrigoyenista family, and that the Peronist politician Arturo Jauretche, a strong opponent of Justo's dictatorship during the Infamous Decade of the 1930s, was afriend of his father.

In his later years, he hadties with the Argentine Socialist Confederation Spanish: Confederación Socialista Argentina, and in Argentina he is associated with Peronism.