Chantal Mouffe
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If politics is ultimately about our deepest fears and desires rather than about, say, tax policy or better health care, then what place is there for a Left whose raison d’être will always be tied to improving the economic fortunes of the... more
This practice-based doctoral research explores the nature of the feral, as manifested in an object-based installation practice of contemporary art that scavenges - physically, socially and metaphorically - in the gap between defined... more
“Power is war, the continuation of war by other means”: Foucault’s reversal of Clausewitz’s formula has become a staple of critical theory — but it remains highly problematic on a conceptual level. Elaborated during Foucault’s 1976... more
PREVIEW BOOK CHAPTER - The chapter engages with mainstream explanations of the electoral growth of the xenophobic and separatist Flemish far-right party, Vlaams Blok, in Belgium from the late 1980s onward. The issue of right-wing populism... more
The rapid rise of "fake news" as a ubiquitous term in global politics has caused widespread debate in democratic societies concerning the distinction between true and false. A number of scholars and journalists have argued that we might... more
Right-wing populism in its relationship with the refugee movement was the topic of the roundtable organized by the UTE in the context of the Conflict Zones network programme. The attempt was to focus on the reactions registered all around... more
Putting climate neutrality on the urban agenda inevitably requires a re-imagination and delineation of the boundaries of the city, both at the geographical level, with regard to its inscription in history and concerning the social groups... more
From the mid-1990’s on, contingency developed into one of the leading key concepts of the social science and achieved an axiomatic status in leftist political and social theory, first and foremost through the central postmarxist thesis of... more
The Social and Economical Bases of Evolution in the Hegemonic Political Discourses of the Islamic Republic of Iran مبانی اجتماعی و اقتصادی تحول در گفتمان های سیاسی مسلط در جمهوری اسلامی ایران Abstract: Iran's revolution was a... more
Een bespreking op basis van 'Het Tij Keren', Joke Hermsen (2019).
Can we understand someone with a different political ideology? In the age of populism and ‘identity politics’ is there any way for non-antagonistic politics? In this talk I defend such a possibility, building on the works of Chantal... more
Der Wiener Philosoph und Politiktheoretiker Oliver Marchart legt mit »Conflictual Aesthetics – Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere« ein ergiebiges Konfliktkunstkonzept vor. Diese Ästhetik gilt nicht dem Schönen, Sinnlichen oder... more
America’s Army is a freely distributed simulation that aims to accurately represent the U.S. army’s presence abroad and their actions in the war on terror. First released on 4 July, 2002 it was designed in the wake of the War on Terror as... more
Chantal Mouffe’s conceptualization of a deliberatively forged consensus as a hegemony and her assertion that adversarial politics best nurtures the conditions of freedom have had a profound influence on contemporary democratic thought.... more
The way in which societies institutionalize “collective memory” is one of the most important aspects of contemporary politics, feeding directly into the constitution of individual and communal identities, and creating sources of discord... more
In the theoretical discussion of populism, two main options can be identified: a perspective conceives the populism as a thin-centered ideology; a second perspective believes that populism is a set of rhetorical, stylistic and... more
Az On the Political (2005) 2. fejezetének fordítása. Századvég, 2011, 60, pp. 25-47.
Desde una óptica semiótico-discursiva, reflexionamos sobre los enlaces entre los temas de la nación y del populismo en Brasil y Perú. Tres son nuestras hipótesis: (1) en ambos países, el discurso sobre la nación está vinculado al... more
In December 2008, Athens saw an eruption of violent protests that followed the murder of a teenager by a policeman. Initially reacting to police violence, the protestors did not articulate a specific agenda. The rallies, which mobilised a... more
Das, was Carl Schmitt für eine Theorie des Pluralismus zu bieten hat, ist überschaubar. Hingegen hätte Mouffe alles, was sie meint, aus Schmitt herausdestillieren zu müssen, einsatzbereit bei Fraenkel finden können. Mouffes souveräne... more
Lors du Séminaire de philosophie politique et sociale co-organisé par F. Cayemaex et E. Delruelle, 2016-2017, ULiège (thématique : « Politiques de la guerre »), nous avons eu l'opportunité de poser une question à Chantal Mouffe sur son... more
Dossier titulado "¿Por qué le llaman diferencia cuando quieren decir identidad? Feminismos y democracia radical" (curado por Laura Llevadot)
Une polémique a eu lieu récemment au Brésil, selon laquelle le nazisme serait une théorie politique de gauche. Contre cette polémique issue de "cercles de droite brésiliens" , l'opinion commune des "historiens sérieux" est que le nazisme... more
Capítulo de libro dentro del libro colectivo sobre la Revolución Ciudadana.
Due to its electoral performance in the 2012 general elections, SYRIZA, a previously unknown Greek political formation of the radical left, gained unprecedented visibility within the European public sphere. How is this strong showing and... more
Inhalt: 1. Der Wert des Staates und die Bedeutung des Einzelnen 1.1 Recht und Macht 1.2 Der Staat 1.3 Der Einzelne oder „‘stirb und werde‘“ 2. Der Begriff des Politischen 2.1 Bonapartistische Politik 2.2 Aporien des... more
In this chapter I give an overview of “Post-Marxism.” Primary attention is paid to what should be considered the core of Post-Marxism in relation to Marxist and Non- Marxist critical theory, namely, its conception of the social. This... more
In this paper I compare political theories of Carl Schmitt and Chantal Mouffe in three important aspects - the conceptualization of the political, their attitude towards liberal democracy and the conception of political process - and... more
This paper considers the radical democratic theory of Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau with reference to the recent rise of Right-wing populism. I argue that even as Mouffe and Laclau develop a critical political ontology that regards... more
Chantal Mouffes gemeinsam mit Ernesto Laclau erarbeitete ‚postmarxistische‘ Theorie des Politischen ist derzeit der wohl meistdiskutierte Beitrag zum Thema Populismus. Mouffes und Laclaus Theorie stellt ein sowohl für den akademischen als... more
El articulo se propone indagar en la categoria de antagonismo desarrollada en el enfoque posestructuralista, posmarxista y posfundacional de Ernesto Laclau. Se sostiene que dicha nocion opera en tres campos analiticos que en la obra del... more
MA thesis (2019), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Oliver Müller.
Texto de la presentación realizada en el SEMINARIO CRISIS DE REPRESENTACIÓN Y POPULISMO (UNED, 14 de diciembre de 2017). Se trata de la versión en castellano del artículo “The outraged people. Laclau, Mouffe and the Podemos hypothesis”,... 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... more
Çeviren: Murat Erşen Fransız filozof Etienne Balibar Yurttaşlık kitabında Batı'daki anayasa kuramının ve demokrasi kavramının gelişiminin izlerini sürüyor. "İhtilaflı demokrasi" olarak adlandırdığı yeni bir demokratik anlayış... more