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	Chantal Mouffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their thoughts are usually described as post-Marxist as they were both politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s and were thus active working class and new social movements (notably second-wave feminism in Mouffe's case).
		They rejected Marxist economic determinism and the notion of class struggle being the single crucial antagonism in society.
		Chantal Mouffe's faculty page at University of Westminster
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chantal_Mouffe (172 words)

	Dr Chris Rumford - 'Us and them' in the New Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is surprising that Chantal Mouffe lapses into the pitfalls of theorizing identity in terms of 'us and them', given her earlier work on the contingent and constructed nature of all identity, and her desire to create a radical democratic politics based on a sustained critical engagement with Gramsci's concept of hegemony.
		Similarly, Mouffe, in her early work on Gramsci's concept of hegemony concluded that class reductionism was a problem that could not be resolved while considering political identity from within a Marxist framework.
		The central plank of Laclau and Mouffe's post-Marxist critique is that Marxism is essentialist.
	www.chrisrumford.org.uk /plate_us_and_them.html (4968 words)

	b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal
		However, Laclau and Mouffe maintain throughout their book that Lenin and Stalin were not exceptions and that any theory and practice which clings to Marxist essentialism not only has the potential to betray the cause of socialism, but that it actually always will betray socialism because it is not sufficiently flexible.
		Instead of a fixed system, Laclau and Mouffe argue that the world is constituted by overdetermined (i.e.: ideologically pre-established and pre-positioned subjects) who, when antagonism arises through the consciousness of their oppression, have the opportunity to change their relationships to one another through the formation of hegemonic blocs (Laclau and Mouffe 1985: 111-113, 120-121).
		As Laclau and Mouffe explain it, Althusser was not able to discern the necessary ramifications of his own concept because this original and startling insight became occluded in his system by his vehement insistence that the social is determined in the last instance by the economic.
	www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au /vol4no2_2005/lewis_overdetermination.htm (7654 words)

	Radical Plural Democracy and the Internet
		In my mind, these classroom dynamics reflect Chantal Mouffe's description of the "new social movements" -- movements that are "the extensions of the democratic revolution to new forms of subordination." They also illustrate the potential (but not the inevitability) of democratic antagonisms to lead to democratic struggles, as articulated by Mouffe in the opening epigraph.
		Significantly, Mouffe acknowledges that state interventions either on behalf of or against the interests of capital,"because of their bureaucratic character, may produce new forms of subordination." New social movements that form the basis of her radical plural democracy may also include movements that are catalyzed by an antagonism against the intervention of state bureaucracy.
		This may stem from Mouffe's observation that some democratic antagonism is in response to the pervasive commercialization and commodification of all aspects of social life, including love.
	www.cyberspacelaw.org /chon/rpd.html (3661 words)

	Naming the Multiple: Poststructuralism and Education - Questia Online Library
		Chantal Mouffe is a poststructuralist political theorist who is perhaps best known for her advocacy of democratic socialism.
		Mouffe sees her project as critical given the state of liberal democratic politics as illustrated by the growing marginalization of many social groups and by the narrowing of options for political representation.
		We believe that Mouffe's view of pluralist democratic politics and, in particular, her view of radical democratic citizenship have important implications for pedagogical theory and practice.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=9616674 (459 words)

	Special Project Writers Series
		A whole host of identities sexual, generational, racial, ethnic linguistic, geographic, cultural have emerged to rupture the presumed stability and unitary nature of the political subject of feminism, challenging feminism much the way feminism and other social movements of the 60s-70s challenged classical Marxism’s privileging of class conflict as the definitive antagonism of society.
		Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclaus theory of Radical Democracy attempts to take into account the increasing fragmentation of social identities, a trend which they assert that not just Marxist theory but also Liberal theory fails to adequately address.
		Mouffe and Laclau critique the Liberal concept of the rational political consensus because of its failure to deal with the constitutive role of antagonism within society.
	www.ps1.org /cut/writers/jafri.html (488 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Democratic Paradox (Phronesis S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This should be called "The Return of The Return of the Political" because Mouffe's ideas, focus and project have barely changed between her previous book and this one; indeed, most of the ideas found here have been carried through from her work in the mid-eighties.
		Mouffe seems to read his idea of differences between forms of life as an argument for uncritically imposing one's own way of life on others (the so-called "necessity of decision"), whereas he was more concerned to expose the limits to social power and the importance of being open to difference, even when it's incommensurable.
		The core themes remain the same, and Mouffe adds little that a careful reader will not have picked up from the earlier book, except to extend her work into critiques and appropriations of different authors, and to dispel any illusions readers may have that there is a difference between "radical democracy" and actually-existing liberal democracy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1859842798 (1023 words)

	Fair Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Political theorists like Chantal Mouffe provide us with alternatives by pointing out that—even if argument is war—war is just one form (although a deadly form) of contest between adversaries.
		Mouffe’s alternative to a utopic, moral, deliberative democracy is—what she calls—an agonistic pluralism where agon is understood as the ancient Greek term denoting A public celebration of games; a contest for the prize at those games; or, a verbal contest or dispute between two characters in a Greek play (OED).»
		Mouffe, Deleuze, Latour and others have provided us with a reimagining of democratic debate as a contest to link, unlink, build and dissolve networks of people and things.
	makingthingspublic.zkm.de /fa/PProjectDetail.do;jsessionid=50F1B8E284E0509E4BDB30E6897948C7?button=reloadProject&proID=84 (1109 words)

	ARPA: On the Future of Radical Politics
		Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, first published in 1985 and in a second edition recently, was a key intervention in the development of a post-Marxist political theory.
		Indeed, Laclau and Mouffe show that there is no original unity in Marxist thought — from virtually the beginning of the history of Marxism there were a number of syntheses and compromises that have been obscured and patched over in the now crumbling theoretical edifice.
		Laclau and Mouffe trace the interventions of Kautsky, Plekhanov, Bernstein, and others to show the way in which they invoke momentarily the autonomy of the political and the contingency of the social, only to return to the narrow confines of economic determinism and class reductionism, thus foreclosing the radical potential of their ideas.
	www.australianreview.net /digest/2002/07/newman.html (2569 words)

	Hegemony: Methods and Hypotheses
		In exploring the limitations of this teleological determinist model in social and political theory, Laclau and Mouffe reintroduce the concept of hegemony as an alternative formulated by Gramsci against the prevailing economism of early Marxist thought.
		Lalcau and Mouffe do not seek a resolution for this paradox, but they will ultimately opt for a non-revolutionary, gradual model of change, which, as we shall see, brings them in close vicinity to a Popperian-styled idea of piece-meal reforms.
		Laclau and Mouffe place the concept of hegemony in the order of the signifier: it both indicates the non-sutured nature of the social, and guarantees its suturing-the social is "a 'non-place', the symbol of its own impossibility" (191).
	reconstruction.eserver.org /022/hegemony.htm (6003 words)

	agonistics / description
		Political theorists like Chantal Mouffe provide us with alternatives by pointing out that -- even if argument is war -- war is just one form (although a deadly form) of contest between adversaries.
		Mouffe's alternative to a utopic, moral, deliberative democracy is -- what she calls -- an "agonistic pluralism" where agon is understood as the ancient Greek term denoting "A public celebration of games; a contest for the prize at those games; or, a verbal contest or dispute between two characters in a Greek play" (OED).
		Mouffe, Deleuze, Latour and others have provided us with a reimagining of democratic debate as a contest to link, unlink, build and dissolve assemblages of people and things.
	artport.whitney.org /gatepages/artists/sack/description.html (899 words)

	Hegel and Postmodern Discourse Theory
		According to Laclau and Mouffe, the only alternative to the essentialist logic of a fundamental ground is that the limits of discourse are set by some constitutive beyond.
		Laclau and Mouffe are caught in the standard performative contradiction of postmodernism, namely, in the very gesture with which they deny the possibility of a shared universe of meanings they demonstrate that their argument relies on such a totality for its intelligibility.
		Chantal Mouffe, “For a Politics of Nomadic Identity,” in Robertson et.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/hegel/txt/gb2000_2.htm (4206 words)

	Human Rights&Human Welfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Synthesizing the theories of Cass Sunstein and Chantal Mouffe, Langlois succeeds in developing a new understanding of human rights which incorporates the notion of the universal while providing a space for conflict and disagreement over the substance and meaning of rights.
		This leads Langlois, drawing on Chantal Mouffe, to conclude that "it is the very debate about what the content of human rights should be which operates to ensure that they are observed" (158).
		Furthermore, although he argues that his chief desire is to concretize the discourse of rights, his discussion of Mouffe's political theory is filled with abstraction.
	www.du.edu /gsis/hrhw/booknotes/2005/morgan-2005.htm (926 words)

	Hegemony & Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Laclau and Mouffe argue this transitional fissure causes a crisis of fragmented social struggles.
		The resounding intention of this work is Laclau and Mouffe’s justification for their concept of radical democracy.
		Laclau and Mouffe touch upon the conditions of equivalence through the reciprocal subversion of negativity and objectivity.
	www.columbia.edu /~mkh65/hegemony.htm (621 words)

	Towards an Agonistic Multipolar World
		At the theoretical level Professor Mouffe is involved in the elaboration of an alternative to the two dominant models in democratic theory, the aggregative and the deliberative models.
		Contrary to the rationalist approach which characterizes current democratic theory, the 'agonistic' model that Professor Mouffe proposes intends to take account of the crucial role played by passions as a driving force for political action, and stresses the affective dimension in the construction of political identities.
		In addition to this theoretical work, Chantal Mouffe is involved in several studies to show the fruitfulness of the agonistic
	www.wmin.ac.uk /sshl/page-299-smhp=1 (159 words)

	Chantal Mouffe - Wittgenstein, Political Theory and Democracy - International Festival
		Chantal Mouffe - Wittgenstein, Political Theory and Democracy
		The goal of this article is to show how a Wittgensteinian perspective could provide a new way of thinking about democracy that departs fundamentally from the dominant rationalist approach which characterizes most of liberal-democratic theory.
		Chantal Mouffe is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London.
	international-festival.org /node/157 (5478 words)

	review2
		Referring to the work of recent psychoanalytic theorists such as Julia Kristeva, Slavoj iek, and Joan Copjec, among others, she argues that the antagonism that Laclau and Mouffe have seen as fundamental to the social (that which prevents society from coming into being) is also evident within the subject.
		What sublimation points out is that ethical justification is always subject to temporality, to symbolization, to contingency; the question of what one ought to do, even vis-à-vis the Other, is distinct from the question of what impact one’s actions will have on others, on communal or political life.
		Chantal Mouffe’s work has indicated that it is a real strength of liberal democracies to eschew public, universal knowledge of the Good.
	culturemachine.tees.ac.uk /Reviews/rev25.htm (3559 words)

	PSCI 232: Knowledge and Power
		Chantal Mouffe's The Return of the Political criticizes the key beliefs and values of contemporary liberal democracy, and attempts to formulate an alternative notion of democratic politics by revolutionizing our thinking about citizenship, community and pluralism.
		If you are unwilling to take on the difficult and sometimes frustrating work of attempting to understand theoretical perspectives which are different from and which may fundamentally challenge your own perspective, this is clearly not the course for you.
		On the basis of the course material and an examination of the secondary literature on a particular theorist or topic, write an analytical paper in which you interpret, explicate and critique significant ideas, themes, and/or arguments covered in one of the final two texts.
	www.wooster.edu /polisci/mw/ps232syllabus.html (1322 words)

	Untitled
		Some strands of political philosophy ñ e.g., 'radical democracy', associated with Chantal Mouffe (1992) and others, together with theories of identity and subjectivity, often with a feminist angle, have been probing the linkages between citizenship, identity (sometimes called political subjectivity in this context) and democracy (cf.
		This civic commonality can be expressed in different ways and manifested by social and cultural groups who are very different from each other.
		Mouffe, Chantal (1993) The Return of the Political.
	culturemachine.tees.ac.uk /Cmach/Backissues/j001/ADVCS/acs_dahl.htm (2557 words)

	Ernesto Laclau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laclau's most important book is Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, which he co-authored with Chantal Mouffe.
		Their thought is usually described as post-Marxist as they were both politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s and thus tried to join working class and new social movements.
		Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of EssexIncludes Laclau papers on populism and the philosophical roots of discourse theory
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernesto_Laclau (260 words)

	Carl Schmitt
		In this case, law which was itself the normal basis of sovereign authority, is also subverted by the total power of the absolutist state, the destruction of the normal and the rightful response of the sovereign to govern totally, thus evinces completely the right of any kind of redress against his over-arching power.
		By stating that Schmitt is an adversary who must be dealt with, Mouffe places herself fully in the liberal camp; "the strategy is definitely not to read Schmitt to attack liberal democracy, but to ask how it could be improved.
		6) Mouffe's apologetics, her thinking 'with' Schmitt is a wholescale appropriation of the characteristic conflict ridden and atomistic ontology of politics along with the insistence on the enduring specificity of the political and its status as constituted democratic power through representation.
	www.generation-online.org /p/pschmitt.htm (837 words)

	234.98.syllabus
		The primary purpose of the course is to develop the analytical and interpretive skills that are necessary in order to assess and choose among contemporary political ideas, beliefs and values.
		Final project: an analysis and critique of Mouffe's The Return of the Political and Sandel's Democracy's Discontent which focuses on one of the major issues or questions regarding liberalism and democracy.
		On the basis of the course material and an examination of the relevant secondary literature, write an analytical paper in which you interpret, explicate and critique significant ideas, themes, and/or arguments covered in the final two texts.
	www.wooster.edu /polisci/mw/234.98.syllabus.html (963 words)

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		Chantal Mouffe will present a lecture exploring what the current discussion about the 'public' in political theory could bring to the field of artistic practices.
		Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London.
		She has taught and researched in many universities in Europe, North America and South America and she is a member of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.
	www.cork2005.ie /programme?id=653&p=371 (234 words)

	Hegemony and Socialist Strategy by Laclau and Mouffe - Reviewed by Brian Precious
		The currents upon which Laclau and Mouffe draw emphasise that the meanings of the elements of such a system are not present outside such a system.
		Such an hegemony is termed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe a “radical and plural democracy” based upon the principle of liberty and equality for all, in which all relations of subordination and exploitation are abolished – such as capitalism, racism and sexism etc.
		Far from painting a Camberwick Green picture of human society (a la the acolytes of “communitarianism”), HSS shows the human world for what it is: a historically specific construction which is riven with conflict and antagonisms, and the book generalises this field of conflict to all social relations without exception and without privilege-including class struggle.
	www.wirehub.nl /~spectr/reviews/laclaumouffe.htm (2687 words)

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