Chantal Mouffe

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Chantal Mouffe

Belgian political theorist

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The Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe, on the other hand, arrived at agonism by taking issue with the normative presuppositions of contemporary liberalism, particularly American philosopher John Rawls’s idea that a “reasonable pluralism” is a sine qua non of a liberal democratic political order. According to Rawls, any liberal…
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The Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe, on the other hand, arrived at agonism by taking issue with the normative presuppositions of contemporary liberalism, particularly American philosopher John Rawls’s idea that a “reasonable pluralism” is a sine qua non of a liberal democratic political order. According to Rawls, any liberal…
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