Seção Especial: DISCOURSE THEORY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND LOGICS OF CRITICAL EXPLANATION

Ano: 2020 | Volume: 6 | Número: 1

Autores: Jason Glynos, Joanildo Burity, Gustavo Gilson Oliveira

Palavras-chave: Introductory Note

Resumo Inglês:

In September 2019, Jason Glynos, Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Government, University of Essex, UK, visited Recife, Brazil, while staying in the country for two months, for a series of academic activities held at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), co-convened by Profs. Gustavo Oliveira and Anna Luiza Oliveira (UFPE) and Joanildo Burity (Fundaj and UFPE). Two interviews were then granted by Prof. Glynos, one of them focusing on the Critical Fantasy Studies research programme he is developing and here the reader will find the second one, focused on Glynos’s own intellectual trajectory, his engagement with discourse theory and psychoanalysis (expressed in his dialogue with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek) and a discussion of methodological aspects of the logics framework developed by him and David Howarth (also from the University of Essex). Particular attention will be given to the relation between the logics of equivalence and difference, on the one hand, and the three meso-level logics put forward by Glynos and Howarth, as the social, political and fantasmatic logics. Glynos is also asked to ponder on how the latter relate to one another, especially in contexts of empirical work, around the question of problematization. The interview was conducted by Joanildo Burity and Gustavo Oliveira, at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation.