Ernesto Laclau

Ernesto Laclau (1935 to 2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher, often described as an inventor of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaboration with his long-term partner Chantal Mouffe. He studied history at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating in 1964, and received a doctorate from the University of Essex in 1977. From 1986 he was Professor of Political Theory at Essex, where he founded and for many years directed the graduate programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis. In 2000 he co-wrote Contingency, Hegemony, Universality with Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek.