Chantal Mouffe: Hegemony, Radical Democracy, and the Political
About this ebook
While Mouffe’s concerns with power and discourse derive from her studies of Gramsci’s theorisations of hegemony and the post-structuralisms of Derrida and Foucault, her reversal of the very terms through which political theory proceeds is very much her own. She centres conflict, not consensus, and disagreement, not finality. Whether philosophically perfectionist, or liberally reasonable, political theorists have been challenged by Mouffe to think again, and to engage with a new concept of ‘the political’ and a revived and refreshed notion of ‘radical democracy’.
The editor has focused on her work in three key areas:
- Hegemony: From Gramsci to ‘Post-Marxism’
- Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship and Identity
- The Political: A Politics Beyond Consensus
The volume concludes with a new interview with Chantal Mouffe.
About the author
James Martin is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He has published widely on Italian political thought, contemporary political theory and rhetoric.
