Part1: Thinking the Political Introduction Mark Devenney
1. ‘Thinking the Political’ Ernesto Laclau
2. ‘On Disarticulation’ Urs Staheli
3. Political Ontology as an Ontology of the Political: On Laclau’s Philosophical Legacy Oliver Marchart
4. A Critique of the Ontological Primacy of the Political Allan Dreyer Hansen 5. Strategy and the Political Kei Yamamoto
Part2: The Politics of Rhetoric and Affect
6. Affective Subjects, Affecting Politics Jenny Gunnarson
7. Neoliberalism and the Specter of the Political Meghan Sutherland
8. Reinstating Rhetoric in Laclau's Work: Tropology, Genealogy and the Domain of Aberrant Phenomena Christos Pallas
Part3: Engaging with Political Philosophy
9. Laclau and Schmitt on the Political: Some Comparative Remarks Juri Lipping 10. ‘‘No such thing’? ? Family resemblance between Laclau and Wittgenstein' Daniel Steuer 11. A Dislocation without a Subject: Rethinking Laclau on Althusser Fabio Bruschi
Part4: Radical Democracy Today
12. Populism and emancipation(s): a post-Marxist affirmation of the validity of a Leftist position Paula Biglieri
13. The Politics of Equivalence Mark Devenney 14. Embodiment: Prefigurative Politics and Synecdochal Representation in the Politics of Occupy Mathijs van de Sande
15. Left-wing populism in the European periphery: the case of SYRIZA Yannis Stavrakakis and Giorgio Katsambekis 16. Post-Marxism and ‘Post-Hegemony’ Jeremy Gilbert