Pojęcie wolności w ponowoczesnych modelach demokracji
The concept of freedom in postmodern modelsof radical democracy

Summary/Abstract: Based on the idea of freedom formulated by I. Berlin, we can distinguish two classical models of democracy: liberal and republican. Reflections on postmodern theories of democracy – radi- cally plural and deliberative – show that the two concurrent theories – postmodern and tradi- tional ones – are not as divergent as one would have thought. Still, the postmodern theories of democracy challenge the traditional ones. Radical democracy in Ch. Mouffe’s and E. Laclau’s rendition, extolling pluralism and negative freedom, aims at deconstructing the liberal model, while J. Habermas’s deliberative project, favouring community and negative freedom, is groun- ded in the republican tradition.

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