The Democratic ParadoxVerso Books, 2020 M05 5 - 144 páginas From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual nature of democratic politics. Far from being signs of progress, such ideas constitute a serious threat to democratic institutions. Taking issue with John Rawls and Jrgen Habermas on one side, and the political tenets of Blair, Clinton and Schrder on the other, Mouffe brings to the fore the paradoxical nature of modern liberal democracy in which the category of the 'adversary' plays a central role. She draws on the work of Wittgenstein, Derrida, and the provocative theses of Carl Schmitt, to propose a new understanding of democracy which acknowledges the ineradicability of antagonism in its workings. |
Contenido
Democracy Power and The Political | |
Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy | |
Wittgenstein Political Theory and Democracy | |
For an Agonistic Model of Democracy | |
A Politics without Adversary? | |
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