This university’s school of thought is exemplified by the author of 2024’s Populist Discourse, Yannis Stavrakakis, and the author of Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse, Aletta Norval. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this British university whose namesake school of thought grew out of an Ideology and Discourse Analysis program that Ernesto Laclau started in the 1980s.
ANSWER: University of Essex [accept Essex School]
[10e] Three of Stavrakakis’ books are titled for this French psychoanalyst. This psychoanalyst and Hegel are the two most consistent sources of Slavoj Žižek’s ideas.
ANSWER: Jacques Lacan [or Jacques Marie Émile Lacan]
[10m] Laclau and Chantal Mouffe wrote [this concept] and Socialist Strategy, a seminal work of the Essex school that inspired Žižek’s The Sublime Object of Ideology. A “counter-” form of this concept can be created by organic intellectuals.
ANSWER: hegemony [or cultural hegemony; accept counterhegemony]
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