TEMELCİLİK-SONRASI DEMOKRASİ TEORİSİ ÜZERİNE NOTLAR: BİRLİKTE-VAROLUŞ VE ANTAGONİZMA
NOTES ON POST-FOUNDATIONAL THEORY OF DEMOCRACY: COEXISTENCE AND ANTAGONISM

Summary/Abstract: In the theory of democracy, the functioning of foundationalist paradigm is in a deepseated crisis. This study focuses on the post foundational debates emerged in contemporary political theory through the critique of foundationalist paradigm. As the starting point, two major arguments that lead to the theory of post-foundationalist democracy are considered: coexistence and antagonism. Accordingly, in post-foundationalist arguments based on the critique of the foundationalist democracy -particularly liberal representative democracy-, there are two approaches that seek the possibility of coexistence on the one hand and evaluate democracy as the playground of antagonistic struggles on the other. In the light of this information, firstly the concepts of foundationalism and post-foundationalism are explained; then, the meanings of foundationalism and post-foundationalism in the context of the theory of democracy are analyzed. Finally, criticism of the discussions of coexistence and antagonism is put forward and a possibility of democracy beyond these two approaches is questioned.

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