Tuesday, 11 January 2022

Mouffe

A central task of democratic politics is to provide the institutions which will permit conflicts to take an ‘agonistic’ form, where the opponents are not enemies but adversaries among whom exists a conflictual consensus.

Chantal Mouffe

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