Instituting Thought. Roberto Esposito

1 Oliver Marchart, Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), p. 2.

      2  2 Cf. also Stephen K. White, Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of a Weak Ontology in Political Theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).

      3  3 Carsten Strathausen, “A Critique of Neo-Left Ontology,” Postmodern Culture 16.3 (2006): 1–38.

      4  4 Lars Tønder and Lasse Thomassen, Radical Democracy: Politics between Abundance and Lack (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005). For the bipolarity between theories of emptiness and theories of fullness, see also Laura Bazzicalupo, “Radicalizzare la democrazia: Produttività politica del vuoto o pienezza ontologica,” in Almanacco di Filosofia e Politica, ed. Roberto Esposito, vol. 1: Crisi dell’immanenza: Potere, conflitto, istituzione, ed. Mattia Di Pierro and Francesco Marchesi (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2019), pp. 75–92, here p. 7.