Chantal Mouffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 282143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chantal Mouffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chantal |
| FAMILY NAME | Mouffe |
| SIGNATURE | MOUFFE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 360 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?
As testified by the increasing success of the extreme right in several countries, western societies are witnessing a growing disaffection with democratic institutions. Such a disaffection may have serious consequences for the future of democracy. Unfortunately, liberal democratic societies are ill-prepared to confront the present challenge, since they are unable to grasp its nature. One of the main reasons for this inability lies in the type of p…
Enquete om populisme
I lyset af Trumps valgsejr i 2024 har vi valgt at gøre en række af artiklerne fra #85: Folk, folkestyre og populisme frit tilgængelige tidligere, end vi plejer. Resten af nummeret bliver tilgængeligt i marts 2025
Democratic Multiplicity: Perceiving, Enacting, and Integrating Democratic Diversity
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that through differently situated participatory and representative practic…
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Democracy as Agonistic Pluralism
Postmodernity allows for the hybridity of politics, but that means, as Chantal Mouffe argues, that societies accustomed to the naturalized values of deliberative democracy must develop new institutions appropriate to the constructed and complex values of postmodern democracy where all unities are provisional. Politics is perpetual contest, not something rational, resolved and singular, so it is necessary to build institutions for manifesting and …
Diarylethene Self‐Assembled Monolayers: Cocrystallization and Mixing‐Induced Cooperativity Highlighted by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy at the Liquid/Solid Interface
Stimulus control over 2D multicomponent molecular ordering on surfaces is a key technique for realizing advanced materials with stimuli‐responsive surface properties. The formation of 2D molecular ordering along with photoisomerization was monitored by scanning tunneling microscopy at the octanoic acid/highly oriented pyrolytic graphite interface for a synthesized amide‐containing diarylethene, which underwent photoisomerization between the open‐…
Construir pueblo: Hegemonía Y Radicalización De La Democracia
Gramsci and Marxist Theory (RLE: (Gramsci)
Democracy, human rights and cosmopolitanism: An agonistic approach
How can we envisage the relation between democracy, human rights and cosmopolitanism from an agonistic perspective? To examine this question, I am going to bring together a series of reflections that I have developed in my previous work to show how the approach that I have been elaborating addresses some of the key issues in those debates. Since I cannot expect everybody to be familiar with my work, I will begin by delineating the basic tenets of…
Gramsci and Marxist Theory (RLE: (Gramsci)
By Way of a Postscript
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChantal MouffeChantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. She has taught at many universities in Europe, North America and Latin America, and has held research positions at Harvard, Cornell, the University of California, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She is …
Democracia y conflicto en contextos pluralistas: Entrevista con Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe, junto al teórico político argentino Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014), lanzó, en 1985, las bases de la teoría del discurso. Luego, desarrolló su trabajo en el sentido de profundizar como influyen las formulaciones de la teoría del discurso en el análisis de las democracias contemporáneas. Abordando el conflicto como una producción del encuentro de la diferencia, Mouffe lo comprende como un aspecto indeleble en la constitución del social.…
An Agonistic Approach to the Future of Europe
The European Union is currently facing a crisis which requires that important institutional changes are made in order to allow for more integration among its different nations. Which road should the new stage of integration follow? Against those who believe that what is needed is the creation of a supranational Europe, I argue in favor of a process of integration that would establish an agonistic Europe. With this aim in mind, I discuss several p…
On the Political
Since September 11th, we frequently hear that political differences should be put aside: the real struggle is between good and evil. What does this mean for political and social life? Is there a 'Third Way' beyond left and right, and if so, should we fear or welcome it?This thought-provoking book by Chantal Mouffe, a globally recognized political author, presents a timely account of the current state of democracy, affording readers the most relev…
Politique et agonisme
Quelle est la meilleure façon d'envisager la politique démocratique ?Jusqu'il y a quelques années, le modèle le plus en vogue en théorie politique était celui de la « démocratie délibérative » défendu, sous des formes différentes, par John Rawls et Jürgen Habermas.Mais un autre modèle, qui propose de concevoir la démocratie de façon « agonistique » est en train de gagner de l'influence et il me semble utile d'examiner ce que ceux qui s'en réclame…
Communisme ou démocratie radicale
It is the very idea of Communism that is to be questioned, insofar as it implies an anti-political view of society whereby all antagonisms would eventually be ruled out, and in which domination, the State, and all the other regulating institutions would be deprived of any relevance. Clearly, social divisions and antagonisms are socially constitutive. They demand or aspire to hegemonic order. In consequence, the substance of emancipation does not …
Democracy in a Multipolar World
I have decided that the best way to address the theme of this conference, ‘Interrogating Democracy in International Relations’, is to examine the implications of my agonistic approach for envisaging what democracy could mean in a multipolar world. I will begin by presenting the basic tenets of the theoretical framework that informs my reflection on the political. It has been elaborated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, co-written with Ernesto L…
The Limits of John Rawls' Pluralism
This article argues that John Rawls' liberal philosophising is an inadequate means of facing today's varied social and political challenges, both domestic and international, because it is incapable of grasping the antagonistic dimension which is constitutive of the political. Focusing first on Rawls' conception of politics in a well-ordered liberal society, and thereafter on his arguments pertaining to the field of international politics, it is s…
Feminismo, democracia pluralista y política agonística
Feminismo, democracia pluralista y política agonística
Pluralismus, Dissens und demokratische Staatsbürgerschaft
Cosmopolitics or Multipolarity
When we enquire about the future of democracy at the world level one of the main trends today is represented by those who call for the establishment of a ‘cosmopolitan democracy’ and a ‘cosmopolitan citizenship’ resulting from the universalization of the Western interpretation of democratic values and the implementation of the Western version of understanding of human rights. According to such an approach, this is how a democratic global order co…
The limits of John Rawls’s pluralism
This article brings to the fore the shortcomings of the type of pluralism advocated by John Rawls both in Political Liberalism and in The Law of Peoples. It is argued that by postulating that the discrimination between what is and what is not legitimate is dictated by rationality and morality, Rawls’s approach forecloses recognition of the properly political moment. Exclusions are presented as being justified by reason and the antagonistic dimens…
On the political
Por um modelo agonístico de democracia
Este artigo propõe uma redescrição dos princípios fundamentais da democracia de modo a abrir espaço para o conflito, a paixão e o político. Em um primeiro momento, criticam-se as versões mais propagadas da democracia deliberativa, em sua neutralização e redução do pluralismo político e abuso dos propósitos democráticos de legitimidade e racionalidade. Em seguida, analisam-se os insights de Carl Schmitt em sua compreensão do conceito do político. …
Schmitt's Vision of a Multipolar World Order
Research Article| April 01 2005 Schmitt's Vision of a Multipolar World Order Chantal Mouffe Chantal Mouffe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (2): 245–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-2-245 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Chantal Mouffe; Schmitt's Vision of a Multipolar World Order. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April…
Post-Marxism: Democracy and Identity
In this article I take issue with the view defended by Habermas and his followers that the critique of rationalism and universalism necessarily undermines the very basis of the modern democratic ideals. I show the important contribution that an anti-essentialist approach can bring to the understanding of the way democratic identities are constituted. I argue that it is only within a framework that relinquishes the epistemological tenets of the En…
Dimensions of radical democracy: Pluralism, citizenship, community
The themes of citizenship and community are today at the center of a fierce debate as both left and right try to mobilize them for their cause. For the left such notions are crucial in all the current attempts to redefine political struggle through extending and deepening democracy. But, argue the contributors to this volume, these concepts need to be made compatible with the pluralism that marks modern democracy. Rather than reject the liberal t…
Citizenship and Political Identity
It is through the question of political identity that I have decided to approach the theme of this conference on identity. More precisely, I intend to ask the following question: What kind of political identity should a project of 'radical and plural democracy' aim at constructing? and I am going to argue that such a project requires the creation of new political identities in terms of radical democratic citizens
By Way of a Postscript
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChantal MouffeChantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. She has taught at many universities in Europe, North America and Latin America, and has held research positions at Harvard, Cornell, the University of California, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She is …
Democracy in a Multipolar World
I have decided that the best way to address the theme of this conference, ‘Interrogating Democracy in International Relations’, is to examine the implications of my agonistic approach for envisaging what democracy could mean in a multipolar world. I will begin by presenting the basic tenets of the theoretical framework that informs my reflection on the political. It has been elaborated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, co-written with Ernesto L…
Por um modelo agonístico de democracia
Este artigo propõe uma redescrição dos princípios fundamentais da democracia de modo a abrir espaço para o conflito, a paixão e o político. Em um primeiro momento, criticam-se as versões mais propagadas da democracia deliberativa, em sua neutralização e redução do pluralismo político e abuso dos propósitos democráticos de legitimidade e racionalidade. Em seguida, analisam-se os insights de Carl Schmitt em sua compreensão do conceito do político. …
Radical Democracy: Modern or Postmodern
What does it mean to be on the left today? In the twilight years of the twentieth century is it in any way meaningful to invoke the Enlightenment ideals that lay behind the project of the transformation of society? We are undoubtedly living through the crisis of the Jacobin imaginary, which has, in diverse ways, characterized the revolutionary politics of the last two hundred years. It is unlikely that marxism will recover from the blows it has s…
The limits of John Rawls’s pluralism
This article brings to the fore the shortcomings of the type of pluralism advocated by John Rawls both in Political Liberalism and in The Law of Peoples. It is argued that by postulating that the discrimination between what is and what is not legitimate is dictated by rationality and morality, Rawls’s approach forecloses recognition of the properly political moment. Exclusions are presented as being justified by reason and the antagonistic dimens…
Decision, Deliberation, and Democratic Ethos
According with the trend in democratic theory currently in vogue, in order to defend democracy it is necessary to give it rational foundations. Indeed, many theorists following this approach believe that it is by providing such foundations that allegiance to liberal democratic institutions will be secured. To criticize rationalism is, according to such a view, to undermine the very basis of democratic citizenship. Hence their rejection of the so-…
Every Form of Art Has a Political Dimension”
January 01 2001 “Every Form of Art Has a Political Dimension” Chantal Mouffe Chantal Mouffe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Chantal Mouffe Online ISSN: 1536-0105 Print ISSN: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room (2001) (2): 98–125. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638101750173019 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…
Schmitt's Vision of a Multipolar World Order
Research Article| April 01 2005 Schmitt's Vision of a Multipolar World Order Chantal Mouffe Chantal Mouffe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (2): 245–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-2-245 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Chantal Mouffe; Schmitt's Vision of a Multipolar World Order. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April…
The Return of the Political
Politics and passions: Introduction
Which Public Sphere for a Democratic Society
My aim in this presentation is to offer some reflections concerning the kind of public sphere that a vibrant democratic society requires. I want to scrutinize the dominant discourse which announces the “end of the adversarial model of politics” and the need to go beyond left and right towards a consensual politics of the centre. The thesis that I want to put forward is that, contrary to what its defenders argue, this type of discourse has very ne…
Absolute Voluntarism: Critique of a Post-Marxist Concept of Hegemony
Post-Marxism Without Apologies
Why should we rethink the socialist project today? In Hegemony and Socialist Strategy we pointed out some of the reasons. As participating actors in the history of our time, if we are actually to assume an interventionist role and not to do so blindly, we must attempt to
An Agonistic Approach to the Future of Europe
The European Union is currently facing a crisis which requires that important institutional changes are made in order to allow for more integration among its different nations. Which road should the new stage of integration follow? Against those who believe that what is needed is the creation of a supranational Europe, I argue in favor of a process of integration that would establish an agonistic Europe. With this aim in mind, I discuss several p…
Working-Class Hegemony and the Struggle for Socialism
The discussion provoked by Andre Gorz's Adieux au proletariat, and by Alain Touraine's L 'Apres-Socialisme has revived the question of the role of the working class in the anti-capitalist struggle. At a time when the importance of the social movements is increasingly recognized, and the demands expressed by them considered as important in the definition of a socialist project, it is urgent to pose the problem of the articulation between these new…
Gramsci in France and Italy-a review of the literature
Communisme ou démocratie radicale
It is the very idea of Communism that is to be questioned, insofar as it implies an anti-political view of society whereby all antagonisms would eventually be ruled out, and in which domination, the State, and all the other regulating institutions would be deprived of any relevance. Clearly, social divisions and antagonisms are socially constitutive. They demand or aspire to hegemonic order. In consequence, the substance of emancipation does not …
Deconstruction and Pragmatism
Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty are two of the most famous living philosophers. The current influence of Deconstruction and Pragmatism, two major intellectual traditions, would be unthinkable without their work. This ground-breaking book brings these two thinkers together in a critical confrontation between these two traditions. Derridean deconstruction and Rortian pragmatism are both accused by their enemies of undermining our ideas of truth a…
La « fin du politique » et le défi du populisme de droite
Cet article explore la question de l’identité en retraçant l’histoire artistique et personnelle de Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, connue dans le monde entier sous le nom de Pippa Bacca, une artiste italienne originaire de Milan qui a été assassinée à l’âge de 34 ans en 2008 en Turquie lors de sa performance « Brides on tour ». C’est à travers l’analyse de la multiplicité des personnes présentes sur le parvis de l’église de San Simpliciano à Mi…
The Return of the Political
Penser la démocratie moderne avec, et contre, Carl Schmitt
Cet article se propose de prendre Carl Schmitt comme « révélateur » pour mettre en évidence le rôle constitutif que joue le pluralisme dans la démocratie moderne, entendue comme nouvelle forme politique de société. Les critiques que Schmitt adresse au libéralisme nous permettent de reconnaître les points de défaillance de la démocratie libérale, mais aussi le moyen de les surmonter. Contrairement à Schmitt qui voit dans le conflit qui existe entr…
Quelques remarques au sujet d'une politique féministe
The argument put forward in the article is that the anti-essentialist perspective generally adopted within the field of contemporary theory is of crucial importance for feminist thought. Such a perspective makes it possible to go beyond a conception in which a feminist politics is limited to the defence of certain particular intersts considered to be specific to women as women. It is through the adoption of an anti-essentialist perspective that f…
Gramsci in France and Italy-a review of the literature
Democracia y nueva derecha
Working-Class Hegemony and the Struggle for Socialism
The discussion provoked by Andre Gorz's Adieux au proletariat, and by Alain Touraine's L 'Apres-Socialisme has revived the question of the role of the working class in the anti-capitalist struggle. At a time when the importance of the social movements is increasingly recognized, and the demands expressed by them considered as important in the definition of a socialist project, it is urgent to pose the problem of the articulation between these new…
Rawls: Political philosophy without politics
Post-Marxism Without Apologies
Why should we rethink the socialist project today? In Hegemony and Socialist Strategy we pointed out some of the reasons. As participating actors in the history of our time, if we are actually to assume an interventionist role and not to do so blindly, we must attempt to
El liberalismo norteamericano y sus críticos: Rawls, Taylor, Sandel, Walzer
A partir de Tocqueville, los Estados Unidos son considerados a menudo como la tierra predilecta del liberalismo democratico. Desde la constitucion de 1787, el liberalismo habria podido florecer en Norteamerica sin chocar con los obstaculos que debio vencer en los paises europeos. Reformulado por Louis Hartz en su libro de 1955, The Liberal Tradition in America, este tema gozo durante mucho tiempo de una hegemonia indiscutida, y es a esta caracter…
Absolute Voluntarism: Critique of a Post-Marxist Concept of Hegemony
Radical Democracy: Modern or Postmodern
What does it mean to be on the left today? In the twilight years of the twentieth century is it in any way meaningful to invoke the Enlightenment ideals that lay behind the project of the transformation of society? We are undoubtedly living through the crisis of the Jacobin imaginary, which has, in diverse ways, characterized the revolutionary politics of the last two hundred years. It is unlikely that marxism will recover from the blows it has s…
Dimensions of radical democracy: Pluralism, citizenship, community
The themes of citizenship and community are today at the center of a fierce debate as both left and right try to mobilize them for their cause. For the left such notions are crucial in all the current attempts to redefine political struggle through extending and deepening democracy. But, argue the contributors to this volume, these concepts need to be made compatible with the pluralism that marks modern democracy. Rather than reject the liberal t…
Penser la démocratie moderne avec, et contre, Carl Schmitt
Cet article se propose de prendre Carl Schmitt comme « révélateur » pour mettre en évidence le rôle constitutif que joue le pluralisme dans la démocratie moderne, entendue comme nouvelle forme politique de société. Les critiques que Schmitt adresse au libéralisme nous permettent de reconnaître les points de défaillance de la démocratie libérale, mais aussi le moyen de les surmonter. Contrairement à Schmitt qui voit dans le conflit qui existe entr…
Citizenship and Political Identity
It is through the question of political identity that I have decided to approach the theme of this conference on identity. More precisely, I intend to ask the following question: What kind of political identity should a project of 'radical and plural democracy' aim at constructing? and I am going to argue that such a project requires the creation of new political identities in terms of radical democratic citizens
Discourses of Impossibility: Can Psychoanalysis Be Political
Feminismo, ciudadanía y política democrática radical
Feminismo, ciudadanía y política democrática radical
The Return of the Political
Feminism, citizenship, and radical democratic politics
Two topics have recently been the subject of much discussion among Anglo-American feminists: postmodernism and essentialism. Obviously they are related since the so-called “postmoderns” are also presented as the main critics of essentialism, but it is better to distinguish them since some feminists who are sympathetic to postmodernism have lately come to the defense of essentialism. I consider that, in order to clarify the issues that are at stak…
Post-Marxism: Democracy and Identity
In this article I take issue with the view defended by Habermas and his followers that the critique of rationalism and universalism necessarily undermines the very basis of the modern democratic ideals. I show the important contribution that an anti-essentialist approach can bring to the understanding of the way democratic identities are constituted. I argue that it is only within a framework that relinquishes the epistemological tenets of the En…
Twelve Democracy, Power, and the “Political”
The Return of the Political
Por una política de la identidad nómada
Por una política de la identidad nómada
Una democracia radical de baja intensidad
Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy
In his introduction to the paperback edition of Political Liberalism , John Rawls, referring to Carl Schmitt's critique of parliamentary democracy, suggests that the fall of Weimar's constitutional regime was in part due to the fact that German elites no longer believed in the possibility of a decent liberal parliamentary regime. This should, in his view, make us realize the importance of providing convincing arguments in favor of a just and well…
Decision, Deliberation, and Democratic Ethos
According with the trend in democratic theory currently in vogue, in order to defend democracy it is necessary to give it rational foundations. Indeed, many theorists following this approach believe that it is by providing such foundations that allegiance to liberal democratic institutions will be secured. To criticize rationalism is, according to such a view, to undermine the very basis of democratic citizenship. Hence their rejection of the so-…
Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy
Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy
Für eine anti-essentialistische Konzeption feministischer Politik
Mesurant la possibilite d'une conception anti-essentialiste de la theorie politique feministe a travers l'analyse de son projet de democratie radicale, l'A. defend l'idee que la politique feministe tient compte de la subordination des formes existantes des societes contemporaines, d'une part, et qu'elle cherche a etablir une alliance avec les autres groupes oppresses en vue d'un approfondissement et d'une radicalisation du projet democratique, d'…
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