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Lasse Thomassen

Researcher at Queen Mary University of London

Publications -  61
Citations -  1096

Lasse Thomassen is an academic researcher from Queen Mary University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 59 publications receiving 976 citations. Previous affiliations of Lasse Thomassen include University of London & University of Limerick.

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The Inclusion of the Other?: Habermas and the Paradox of Tolerance

Lasse Thomassen
- 01 Aug 2006 - 
TL;DR: The authors argue that Habermas is ultimately unable to provide a rational foundation for tolerance and that his conception of tolerance encounters the same problems he is trying to avoid, namely, the contingency of the threshold of tolerance and a paternalistic relation between tolerating and tolerated.
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Legality and Legitimacy

TL;DR: The very best website for downloading this legality and legitimacy can be found in this paper, where the layout of ppt, txt, pdf, word, rar, zip, and kindle is presented.

Radical democracy : politics between abundance and lack

TL;DR: Tonder and Thomassen as discussed by the authors discuss the relationship between abundance and lack in the context of radical democracy and the ontology of lack in their paper "Radical democracy: abundance and/or lack".
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Political Theory in the Square: Protest, Representation and Subjectification

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the centrality of the critique of representation and politics as usual as well as the ideas about horizontality and autonomy in the protesters' discourse and argue that the protesters can be seen as making a claim to equal voice.
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Antagonism, hegemony and ideology after heterogeneity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that heterogeneity should be the central category of hegemony and discourse analysis, and that antagonism can be seen as a strategy of ideological closure, which can be viewed as a form of deconstruction.