Carl Schmitt and post-marxism: The Chantal Mouffe case
The article investigates the proposal for re-reading the theory of democracy and the concept of the political made by Chantal Mouffe. The objective is to analyze the author's arguments and the rehabilitation of the theme of conflict as constitutive of democracy. After the consensual turn, ratio...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) |
| Repositorio: | Princípios (Natal. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufrn.br:article/27128 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/27128 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Radical democracy Antagonism Agonism Democracia radical Antagonismo Agonismo |
| Sumario: | The article investigates the proposal for re-reading the theory of democracy and the concept of the political made by Chantal Mouffe. The objective is to analyze the author's arguments and the rehabilitation of the theme of conflict as constitutive of democracy. After the consensual turn, rational procedures and principles began to govern the institution of politics through deliberative conceptions about democracy, marked by the neutralization of conflict and identification between politics and morality. Against this movement, Mouffe promotes an unusual encounter between post-structuralist Marxism and some central theses of Carl Schmit's political theory. In contrast to the understanding of politics as an antagonism between friends/enemies, Mouffe proposes a model of adversarial agonism, which, according to her, can take the form of a liberal democracy. We intend to examine his proposal and discuss whether it actually surpasses Schmitt's critique of liberalism. |
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