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10, 13, 15, 17-18, 21, 78, 144-5 Conversations '''Chantal Mouffe''' (born [[1943born]] 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]]."

*''Gramsci and Marxist [[Theory]]''. [[London ]] – Boston: Routledge / Kegan [[Paul]], 1979. (editor)*''[[Hegemony ]] and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic [[Politics]]''. London – New York: Verso, 1985. (with [[Ernesto Laclau]])*''Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, [[Citizenship]], [[Community]]''. London – New York: Verso, 1992. (editor)*''The [[Return ]] of the [[Political]]''. London – New York: Verso, 1993.*''Le politique et ses enjeux. Pour une démocratie plurielle''. [[Paris]]: La Découverte/MAUSS, 1994.*''[[Deconstruction ]] and [[Pragmatism]]''. London – New York: Routledge, 1996. (editor)*''The Challenge of Carl [[Schmitt]]''. London – New York: Verso, 1999. (editor)*''The Democratic [[Paradox]]''. London – New York: Verso, 2000.*''Feministische Perspektiven''. Wien: Turia + [[Kant]], 2001. (co-editor)

==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 theoristsMarxism|Mouffe, Chantal]]