Ernesto Laclau. La Razón Populista.

Ernesto Savaglio

Keywords A Note on Inequality Criteria absolute differentials ordering relative differentials ordering Lorenz ordering JEL classiication March 2001 The (ADO) and the (RDO) have been introduced as suitable alternative inequality criteria to (LO). We provide two new alternative proofs that ADO and RDO are sub-orderings of LO. Furthermore , we point out some paradoxical situationss, where these tw...

Political Agency in Dewey and in Laclau and Mouffe

In a condensed moment quite typical of the overstated bombast appropriate to a philosopher who was in his heart very much a metaphysician, Alfred North Whitehead once wrote that, “The creation of the world . . . is the victory of persuasion over force” (1933, 90). The metaphysics of Whitehead was a metaphysics of process, one variant of what I have called elsewhere a philosophy of transitions.1...

Software Architecture Specification with π - calculus ∗ Carlos Canal Ernesto Pimentel

The application of formal methods to the development of software depends on the availability of adequate models and formalisms for each of the levels of the development process. In this paper we focus in the level of design called Software Architecture. At this level, the system is described as a collection of interrelated components. Process algebras, such as Milner’s π-calculus seem to be a g...

The political logic of discourse: a neo-Gramscian view

This article contrasts Mark Bevir’s approach to the history of ideas with a neoGramscian theory of discourse. Bevir puts the case for an ‘anti-foundationalist’ approach to understanding ideas, yet he defends a weak rationalism centred on individual intentions as the original source of all meanings. Discourse theorists specifically Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe also adopt an anti-foundationa...

Etude sur la digestion pancratique de la caseine pour la production de la toxine tetanique