Thomassen, Lasse
Lasse Thomassen is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in thein the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, and Reader in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Deconstructing Habermas (2007) and British Multiculturalism and the Politics of Representation (2017). He is currently working on deconstruction, the category of representation and new forms of radical politics.
Research Interests: Democratic representation, Radical politics, and Political theory
Listing Details
| Institution: | Queen Mary University of London |
| Fields of Expertise: | Democracy and Political Participation Ethics and Political Philosophy Political Extremism |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | l.thomassen@qmul.ac.uk |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | Danish, English, Spanish |
| Publications: | British Multiculturalism and the Politics of Representation (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Continuum, 2010). Deconstructing Habermas (London: Routledge, 2007; paperback 2013). ‘Representing the People: Laclau as a Theorist of Representation’, New Political Science, 41:2 (2019), 329-44. ‘Poststructuralism and representation’, Political Studies Review 15:4 (2017), 539-50. ‘From Protest to Party: Horizontality and Verticality on the Slovenian Left’ (with Alen Toplišek), Europe-Asia Studies 69:9 (2017), 1383-1400. ‘Mind the gap: Lawrence Hamilton and aesthetic representation’, Representation 53:1 (2017), 41-53. ‘Hegemony, Populism and Democracy: Laclau and Mouffe Today (review article)’, Revista Española de Ciencia Política, no. 40 (2016), 161-76. ‘Political Theory In the Square: Protest, Representation and Subjectification’ (with Marina Prentoulis), Contemporary Political Theory 12:3 (2013), 166-84. ‘Deliberative Democracy and Provisionality’, Contemporary Political Theory 10:4 (2011), 423-43. |
