Concept

Chantal Mouffe

Overview

Chantal Mouffe (French: [muf]; born 17 June 1943) is a Belgian political theorist, teaching at University of Westminster. She is best known for her and Ernesto Laclau's contribution to the development of the so-called Essex School of discourse analysis. She is a strong critic of deliberative democracy and advocates a conflict-oriented model of radical democracy.

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Philosophers who discussed Chantal Mouffe

• Richard Rorty
• Carl Schmitt
• Jacques Derrida
• Ernesto Laclau
• Václav Bělohradský

Related ideas

• John Rawls
• Western philosophy
• Jürgen Habermas
• Harvard University
• Latin America
• North America
• Political philosophy
• Princeton University
• Post-structuralism
• KU Leuven
• United Kingdom
• Belgium
• Post-Marxism
• Carl Schmitt
• Ernesto Laclau
• Cornell University
• Contemporary philosophy
• University of Paris
• Europe
• Gustave Le Bon
• The Concept of the Political

Place in the tradition

Part of Liberalism.

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