Agonistics: Thinking The World Politically

Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?

Developing her groundbreaking political philosophy of agonistics – the search for a radical and plural democracy – Chantal Mouffe examines international relations, strategies for radical politics, the future of Europe and the politics of artistic practices. She shows that in many circumstances where no alternatives seem possible, agonistics offers a new road map for change. Engaging with
cosmopolitanism, post-operaism, and theories of multiple modernities she argues in favour of a multipolar world with real cultural and political pluralism.

• The Democratic Paradox (Radical Thinkers)
• Hegemony And Socialist Strategy: Towards A Radical Democratic Politics (Radical Thinkers)
• For a Left Populism
• On the Political (Thinking in Action)
• The Return of the Political (Radical Thinkers)
• Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College)
• On Populist Reason
• Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
• The Rhetorical Foundations Of Society
• The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics