Thinking "Thinking Antagonsim". A Response

Abstract

This contribution replies to a set of articles by Paula Biglieri, Allan Dreyer Hansen, Vassilios Paipais, David Payne, Gloria Perelló and Dimitris Vardoulakis about the book ‘Thinking Antagonism. Political Ontology after Laclau’ (Edinburgh University Press 2018) by Oliver Marchart. The author positions his own ontology of the political, i.e. of antagonism, in relation to the work of Ernesto Laclau and within the intellectual context of the Essex School. He thereby reflects on the role of the university, the transferential relationship between academic ‘master’ and ‘disciple’, the question of what is ‘proper’ to a given thought, agonistic democracy, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and what ‘thinking’ could mean from a political perspective.