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10, 13, 15, 17-18, 21, 78, 144-5 Conversations '''Chantal Mouffe''' (born [[1943]] in [[Charleroi]], [[Belgium]]) is a [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[political theorist]]. She is a [[Professor]] in the [[University of Westminster]] and she co-authored ''[[Hegemony and Socialist Strategy]]'' with [[Ernesto Laclau]]. Their thoughts are usually described as post-Marxist as they were both politically active in the social and student movements of the [[1960s]] and were thus active working class and new social movements (notably second-wave [[feminism]] in Mouffe's case). They rejected [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[economic determinism]] and the notion of [[class struggle]] being the single crucial [[antagonism]] in [[society]]. Instead they urged for radical [[democracy]] of [[agonistic pluralism]] where all antagonisms could be expressed. In their opinion, "...there is no possibility of society without antagonism," which is why they claimed that "society does not exist."
==Publications==
*''On the Political''. Abingdon – New York: Routledge, 2005.
==External links==*[http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-1527-smhp=1 Chantal Mouffe's faculty page at University of Westminster]*[httpCategory://them.polylog.org/2/amc-en.htm Wittgenstein, Political Theory and Democracy] by Chantal Mouffe    {{Belgium-bio-stub}} [[Category:1943 births|Mouffe, Chantal]][[Category:Belgian political scientists|Mouffe, Chantal]][[Category:Feminist scholars|Mouffe, Chantaltheory]][[Category:Marxist theoristsMarxisms|Mouffe, Chantal]]
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