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Chantal Mouffe – 'Agonistic Politics and Artistic Practices'
Hosted by the School of Fine Art
Friday Event
Glasgow Film Theatre
2 Mar 2007
Friday,
11:00 - 13:00
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Lecture Presentation
Chantal Mouffe
'Agonistic Politics and Artistic
Practices' listen to audio recording
Chantal Mouffe will present the current discussion about democracy
in political theory and examine the different ways in which the
public space is envisaged in those different models. Bringing to
the fore the limitations of the consensual approaches, she will
argue that the agonistic model is better suited than the
deliberative one for envisaging the role that artistic practices
can play in fostering democratic politics.
Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for
Democracy at the University of Westminster in London. She is the
co-author (with Ernesto Laclau) of 'Hegemony and Socialist
Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics' and the author of
'The Return of the Political', 'The Democratic Paradox', and 'On
the Political'.