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Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism? / BY CHANTAL MOUFFE l's testified by the increasing success of the extreme right in sev-eral countries, western societies are witnessing a growing disaffec-tion with democratic institutions. Such a disaffection may have serious consequences for the future of democracy. Unfortunately,
Nov 29, 2018 · Agonistic democracy constitutes Mouffe’s distinctive contribution to contemporary political theory. On the back of the assumption that contestatory practices—an agonistic confrontation between adversaries rather than enemies—fruitfully channel the passions and antagonisms that threaten to unravel institutional democracies, Mouffe has ...
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Sep 6, 2022 · In democratic theory, agonistic theories stress the role of conflicts in liberal democracies. Chantal Mouffe's theory of agonistic democracy has gained massive influence for defending political conflicts as crucial for the stability and quality of democracies.
Sep 22, 2019 · Perhaps the best-known advocate of this latter position is Chantal Mouffe, who is also the best-known representative of the ‘agonistic’ tradition of democratic theory in Europe.
- Danny Michelsen
- 2019
This chapter introduces readers to the work of the Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe, focusing on her conception of democracy as necessarily agonistic. The chapter casts Mouffe’s work as post-Marxist, in the sense that it both has a clearly Marxist heritage and breaks with Marxist assumptions about the primacy of class as political ...
Apr 9, 2014 · It is Chantal Mouffe's contention that the central weakness of consensus-driven forms of liberalism, such as John Rawls' political liberalism and Jürgen Habermas' deliberative democracy, is that th...
A prominent critic of deliberative democracy (especially in its Rawlsian and Habermasian versions), she is also known for her use of the work of Carl Schmitt, mainly his concept of "the political", in proposing a radicalization of modern democracy—what she calls "agonistic pluralism".
