- PhD candidate in Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. Interested in exploring the rise of contemporary populism and related forms of anti-system politics in the context of the crisis of 'progressive neoliberal' hegemony. Student of Nietzsche, Gramsci, Schmitt, radical ... morePhD candidate in Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. Interested in exploring the rise of contemporary populism and related forms of anti-system politics in the context of the crisis of 'progressive neoliberal' hegemony. Student of Nietzsche, Gramsci, Schmitt, radical democratic theory and narrative theory. MSc in Political Theory (LSE), MA and BA in Philosophy (KU Leuven).edit
- Prof. dr. Karsten Fischeredit
If electoral competition is construed not as an exchange of reasons but as a clash of narratives - a 'storytelling contest' - where can we hope to locate the categories of truth and truthfulness? This dissertation considers the central... more
If electoral competition is construed not as an exchange of reasons but as a clash of narratives - a 'storytelling contest' - where can we hope to locate the categories of truth and truthfulness? This dissertation considers the central questions of epistemic democracy --- questions pertaining to the nature of truth, facts, values and 'validity' in politics - through the lens of a narrative-based model of electoral competition.
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In this paper, we offer a contribution to the ideational approach to populism. Considering populism as a ‘thin’ ideology in whose conceptual core lie the notions of the good ‘people’, the evil ‘elite’ and popular sovereignty, we propose a... more
In this paper, we offer a contribution to the ideational approach to populism. Considering populism as a ‘thin’ ideology in whose conceptual core lie the notions of the good ‘people’, the evil ‘elite’ and popular sovereignty, we propose a theoretical articulation of populism that, in our view, encompasses two hitherto inadequately articulated dimensions of the populist phenomenon – reactivity and elitism. To this end, we draw from Friedrich Nietzsche’s genealogical account of Slave morality, Vilfredo Pareto’s theory of elite cycles, as well as from John Higley and Michael Burton’s notion of ‘elite configuration’ to construct a descriptive elite- theoretical model which we then apply in our interpretation of the populist phenomenon. According to our proposed model, populism can be understood as the ideological expression of an ‘outsider-elite’ whose aim is to renegotiate the ‘thickened’ ideological consensus of a consensually united political elite.
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If electoral competition is construed not as an exchange of reasons but as a clash of narratives - a 'storytelling contest' - where can we hope to locate the categories of truth and truthfulness? This dissertation... more
If electoral competition is construed not as an exchange of reasons but as a clash of narratives - a 'storytelling contest' - where can we hope to locate the categories of truth and truthfulness? This dissertation considers the central questions of epistemic democracy --- questions pertaining to the nature of truth, facts, values and 'validity' in politics - through the lens of a narrative-based model of electoral competition.
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Tekst predavanja pod nazivom "Država, Svetinje, Evropski Put: savremena crnogorska politika kroz prizmu teorije diskursa", održanog 5. oktobra 2022. na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta Crne Gore.