Thomas Jacobs
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Jacobs is
involved.
Title
Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy: Towards a post-Marxist understanding of contestation and politicization
Thomas Jacobs
Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy revisits a question that has long fascinated socialists, progressives, democrats, Greens, and Marxists – how do left-wing forces win at politics? Thirty-five years ago, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe tackled this puzzle in ground-breaking fashion, by… read moreArticles
Jacobs, Thomas 2025
Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication: A long-expected party Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice, De Cleen, Benjamin, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Jana Goyvaerts, Maximilian Grönegräs and Yannis Stavrakakis (eds.), pp. 25–49 | Article This contribution explores the nexus between Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication. Traditional positivist and rationalist approaches to business, economics, politics, and management often marginalize strategic communication as merely instrumental; whereas discursive approaches, and… read more This chapter presents a discourse-analytical approach to a series of blogposts uploaded to the website of Brussels-based libertarian think tank between 2015 and 2018 in reaction to the controversy over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). In these blogposts, economic experts… read more 
