The Democratic Paradox

Title: The Democratic Paradox
Abstract/Description: From the theory of ‘deliberative democracy’ to the politics of the ‘third way’, the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual nature of democratic politics. Far from being signs of progress, such ideas constitute a serious threat to democratic institutions. Taking issue with John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas on one side, and the political tenets of Blair, Clinton and Schröder on the other, Mouffe brings to the fore the paradoxical nature of modern liberal democracy in which the category of the ‘adversary’ plays a central role. She draws on the work of Wittgenstein, Derrida, and the provocative theses of Carl Schmitt, to propose a new understanding of democracy which acknowledges the ineradicability of antagonism in its workings.
Author/creator: Mouffe, Chantal
Date: 2009
Publisher: Verso Books
Resource type: en Background/Context
Medium: en Print
Background/context type: en Conceptual
Open access/free-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en No
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (Verso Books)
Citation: Mouffe, C. (2009). The Democratic Paradox (p. 144). Verso Books.
Cited in: The Theory and Practice of Democracy and Community
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Textbook

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