Chantal Mouffe - Feminism, pluralist democracy and politics of agonism Cover Image

Chantal Mouflfe - Feminizam, pluralistička demokracija i agonistička politika /prijevod/
Chantal Mouffe - Feminism, pluralist democracy and politics of agonism

Author(s): Đurđa Knežević
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Ženska infoteka
Keywords: Feminism; pluralist democracy; agonism; antagonism

Summary/Abstract: Chantal Mouffe lays out a theoretical frame marking her approach to the themes she analyses in the text: the political as antagonism. Since all forms of political identities contain the we/they distinction, this means that the possibility of appearance of antagonism can never be eliminated. It is therefore an illusion to believe in the advent of a society from which antagonism would have been eradicated. Agonism is a we/they relationship where the conflicting parties, although acknowledging that there is no rational solution to their conflict, nevertheless recognize the legitimacy of their apponents. They are zadversaries not enemies. This means that, while in conflict, they see themselves as members of the same political association, as sharing a common symbolic space within which the conflict takes place

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 25-37
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian