Lefort, Claude

The visible and the invisible; followed by working notes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty ( Book )
11 editions published between 1964 and 1994 in 4 languages and held by 1,011 libraries worldwide

The political forms of modern society : bureaucracy, democracy, totalitarianism by Claude Lefort ( Book )
12 editions published between 1986 and 2010 in English and held by 685 libraries worldwide

Democracy and political theory by Claude Lefort ( Book )
25 editions published between 1986 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 648 libraries worldwide
Réflexion d'anthropologie politique sur les conditions, l'origine, le devenir et les dérives possibles de la démocratie entendue comme logique de la modernité.

Le visible et l'invisible; suivi de notes de travail by Maurice Merleau-Ponty ( Book )
32 editions published between 1961 and 2007 in French and Undetermined and held by 448 libraries worldwide
"Les concepts fondamentaux de la philosophie moderne -par exemple, les distinctions du sujet et de l'objet, de l'essence et du fait, de l'être et du néant, les notions de conscience, d'image, de chose- impliquent déjà une interprétation singulière du monde et ne peuvent prétendre à une dignité spéciale quand notre propos est justement de nous remettre en face de notre expérience, pour chercher en elle la naissance du sens.

Writing, the political test by Claude Lefort ( Book )
12 editions published between 1971 and 2001 in French and English and held by 383 libraries worldwide

Complications : communism and the dilemmas of democracy by Claude Lefort ( Book )
13 editions published between 1999 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 369 libraries worldwide
"Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy ties together the central concerns of the work of Claude Lefort over the past half-century. A pivotal figure in French thought, Lefort studied under Maurice Merleau-Ponty, cofounded with Cornelius Castoriadis the influential journal Socialisme ou Barbarie, and famously engaged in a heated debate with Jean-Paul Sartre over the Soviet Union and Communist parties in the West. He has influenced generations of political thinkers and throughout his career has offered invaluable leftist, non-Communist critiques of both liberalism and Communism."--Jacket.

Le travail de l'œuvre: Machiavel by Claude Lefort ( Book )
24 editions published between 1972 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 288 libraries worldwide

La Prose du monde by Maurice Merleau-Ponty ( Book )
20 editions published between 1969 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 248 libraries worldwide

Les Formes de l'histoire : essais d'anthropologie politique by Claude Lefort ( Book )
18 editions published between 1978 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 199 libraries worldwide

L'invention démocratique : les limites de la domination totalitaire by Claude Lefort ( Book )
17 editions published between 1981 and 2009 in French and held by 196 libraries worldwide
Contrairement à beaucoup d'intellectuels de sa génération, Claude Lefort peut se réclamer d'une rare constance dans l'analyse des régimes communistes, qu'il qualifiait de totalitaires dès 1956. Les textes publiés en 1981 font état de sa conviction que l'effondrement du communisme est inévitable. Ce jugement procède d'une vision politique des sociétés modernes.