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How to present the corpus of Claude Lefort and to attempt to give a complete view of it? What is there in common between the first writings from the end of the 1940s, the years 1950 and 1960 and the works such as his Machiavel, le travail de l’œuvre (1972), Un homme en trop (1975), his essay on Solzhenitsyn’s l’Archipel du Goulag, or Sur une colonne absente (1978), his collection of writings on Merleau-Ponty, or, again, the texts composing Les formes de l’histoire (1978), and then those which provided the material for other collections: L’invention démocratique (1981), Essais sur le politique (1986), and Écrire à l’épreuve du politique (1992)? Where should one locate in this collection his last book, La complication Retour sur le communisme (1999)? or, finally, the combined articles in his last collection, Le temps présent (2007)? What thread ties these different moments in his oeuvre, how did he construe it, and how is one to read it today?
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M. Malia (1995) La tragédie soviétique. Histoire du socialisme en Russie, 1917–1991 (Paris: le Seuil).
F. Furet (1995) Le Passé d’une illusion. Essai sur l’idée communiste au XX? siècle (Paris: Robert Laffont/Calmann-Lévy).
“Préface” to Edgar Quinet (1987) La revolution (Paris: Belin);
“Le libéralisme de Guizot,” introduction to François Guizot (1988) Des moyens de gouvernement et d’opposition dans l’état actuel de la France (Paris: Belin); “Introduction” to Gordon Wood (1991) La création de la république américaine (Paris: Belin); “La modernité de Dante,” preface to Dante (1993) La Monarchie (Paris: Belin);
“La cité des vivants et des morts,” presentation of J. Michelet (2002) La cité des vivants et des morts. Préfaces et introductions (Paris: Belin);
“Préface” to M. Merleau-Ponty (2003) L’institution de la passivité. Notes de cours au Collège de France (1954–1955) (Paris: Belin).
“Préface” to N. Machiavelli (1980) Discours sur la première décade de Tite-Live (Berger Levraut) and “Préface” to A. de Tocqueville (1999) Souvenirs (Folio-Histoire: Gallimard).
A. Montefiore (1983) Philosophy in France Today (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); (1985) “Philosophe?” in Poésie no. 37 (Belin), also in (1992) Écrire. À l’épreuve du politique, Calmann-Lévy, pp. 337–55.
C. Lefort (2000) Writing: The Political Test (Durham: Duke University Press), p. 233.
In C. Lefort (1963) “La politique et la pensée de la politique,” in Les Lettres nouvelles and in (1978) Sur une colonne absente (Paris: Gallimard), p. 104 (trans. K. Gissberg).
C. Lefort (1970) “L’œuvre de pensée et l’histoire,” in Nouvelle revue de psychanalyse,
reprinted in C. Lefort (1978) Les formes de l’histoire. Essais d’anthropologie politique (Paris: Gallimard), p. 151.
C. Lefort (2000) Writing: The Political Test, pp. 249–50.
C. Lefort (1993) “Réflexions sur le projet politique du Mauss,” in La revue du Mauss, no. 2,
reprinted in C. Lefort (2007) Le temps présent. Écrits 1945–2005 (Paris: Belin), p. 723 (trans. K. Gissberg).
C. Lefort (1971) Sciences et consciences de la société, Mélanges en l’honneur de Raymond Aron (Calmann-Lévy),
reprinted in C. Lefort (1974) Les formes de l’histoire (Paris: Gallimard).
C. Lefort (1988) Mai 68: la brèche (Editions Complexe), p. 50.
C. Lefort (1979) Éléments d’une critique de la bureaucratie (Paris: Gallimard).
C. Lefort (1978) Les formes de l’histoire (Paris: Gallimard).
C. Lefort (1946) L’homme contre les tyrans (Paris: Gallimard).
Reprinted in C. Lefort (2007) Le temps present (Paris: Belin), pp. 49–75.
C. Lefort (1989) “Démocratie et representation,” reprinted in C. Lefort (2007) Le temps present, pp. 611–20.
C. Lefort (1992) Le Quotidien de Paris, reprinted in C. Lefort (2007) Le temps présent, pp. 683–87.
With Esteban Molina, in 2009, “La ciudad dividida y el sentido del republicanismo. Conversacion con Claude Lefort,” interview published in an appendix to the translation in Spanish of his Machiavelli, C. Lefort (2010) Maquiavelo. Lecturas de lo politico (Madrid: Editorial Trotta) pp. 567–77.
C. Lefort (1992) “Tocqueville: démocratie et art d’écrire,” in Ecrire. À l’épreuve du politique (Paris: Calmann-Lévy).
C. Lefort (1977) “Sur Penser la Guerre, Clausewitz” in Annales, XXXII, no. 6, also in C. Lefort (2007) Le temps présent, pp. 322–3 (trans. K. Gissberg).
C. Lefort (1997) Commentaire, also in C. Lefort (2007) Le temps présent, pp. 915–36.
C. Lefort (1980) “Penser la révolution dans la Révolution française,” in Annales, 2, reprinted in C. Lefort (2001) Essais sur le politique (Paris: Seuil), pp. 110–39; C. Lefort (1999) La complication (Paris: Fayard).
C. Lefort (1987) “Dialogue avec Pierre Clastres,” in M. Abensour (ed.) L’ Espritdes lois sauvages (Paris: le Seuil).
H. Rosenberg (1959) The Tradition of the New (New York: Horizon Press); French translation, Anne Marchand, Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1962.
C. Lefort (2007) Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press), p. 36 (trans. Julian Bourg).
C. Lefort (2000) Writing: The Political Test, p. XXXVIII.
C. Lefort (1994) L’invention democratique (Paris: Fayard), p. 165 (trans. K. Gissberg).
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Bataillon, G. (2013). Claude Lefort, the Practice and Thought of Disincorporation. In: Plot, M. (eds) Claude Lefort. Critical Explorations in Contemporary Political Thought Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375581_7
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