Carl Schmitt and post-marxism: The Chantal Mouffe case

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https://doi.org/10.21680/1983-2109.2022v29n60ID27128

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Radical democracy, Antagonism, Agonism

Abstract

The article investigates the proposal for re-reading the theory of democracy and the concept of the political made by Chantal Mouffe. The objective is to analyze the author's arguments and the rehabilitation of the theme of conflict as constitutive of democracy. After the consensual turn, rational procedures and principles began to govern the institution of politics through deliberative conceptions about democracy, marked by the neutralization of conflict and identification between politics and morality. Against this movement, Mouffe promotes an unusual encounter between post-structuralist Marxism and some central theses of Carl Schmit's political theory. In contrast to the understanding of politics as an antagonism between friends/enemies, Mouffe proposes a model of adversarial agonism, which, according to her, can take the form of a liberal democracy. We intend to examine his proposal and discuss whether it actually surpasses Schmitt's critique of liberalism.

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Deyvison Lima, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI)

Deyvison Rodrigues Lima – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7879-8388

Professor Adjunto no Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Piauí e do Mestrado Profissional em Filosofia – UFPI (Teresina, PI, Brasil).

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

 

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Deyvison Lima

Universidade Federal do Piauí - Centro de Ciências Humanas e Letras

Departamento de Filosofia - Caixa Postal 64.049-550

Ramal: 3215-5786 – Teresina/PI

 

José Maria Arruda, Universidade Federal Fluminense

José Maria Arruda – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2365-9348

Professor Associado IV da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Niterói, RJ, Brasil).

Mestre em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul e Doutor em Filosofia pela Universität Essen, Alemanha. Foi professor do Departamento de Filosofia e da Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) e atualmente é professor do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Niterói, RJ, Brasil). Entre outras produções, traduziu a obra “O Nomos da Terra”, de Carl Schmitt.

 

 

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José Maria Arruda

Praça Almirante Jaceguai, 71/Apto 401

CEP:20240-000  Rio de Janeiro/RJ

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25-11-2022

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LIMA, D.; ARRUDA, J. M. . Carl Schmitt and post-marxism: The Chantal Mouffe case. Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN), [S. l.], v. 29, n. 60, p. 213–234, 2022. DOI: 10.21680/1983-2109.2022v29n60ID27128. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/27128. Acesso em: 4 dec. 2024.

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Vol. 29 No. 60 (2022): Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN)

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Dossiê Carl Schmitt e o pensamento político contemporâneo

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