Claude Lefort is a French philosopher and activist. He was politically active by 1942 under the influence of his tutor, the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (whose posthumous publications Lefort later edited). By 1943 he was organising a faction of the Trotskyist Parti Communiste Internationaliste at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. Lefort was impressed by Cornelius Castoriadis when he first met him. From 1946 he collaborated with him in the Chaulieu-Montal Tendency, … Wikipedia
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Claude Lefort has never quite made it to the rank of the French "maîtres à penser" like Sartre and Lacan, Althusser and Foucault. Nevertheless, during the second half of the 20th century he became France's most important practitioner of political theor ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=11823
"Claude Lefort is to French political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century what Maurice Blanchot was to its literature: a hidden but decisive master. I belong to those who owe him a great debt in this regard. Lefort is first of all the www.theoria.ca/theoria/archives/2007/05/complications-by-...
