Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe claimed to have identified the fatal flaw of Marxism and developed a better framework for left politics. But their taboo against class “essentialism” means they can’t ...

Chantal Mouffe, a Belgian philosopher and political theorist born in 1943, has been one of the most influential figures in post-Marxist thought. Although now retired, she was a professor at the ...

In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social ...

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In the profusion of essays recently published on populism (Müller 2016, Moffitt 2017, Mudde and Rovira Kaltwasser 2017) one stands out for its claim of the term, the idea and the program: Chantal ...

Anna Ostoya, an image from Politics and Passions, by Anna Ostoya & Chantal Mouffe. (Courtesy of the artist / MACK) Chantal Mouffe is one of a rarefied group of academics whose work does not focus on ...

The proper Left alternative to the class struggle is subverting capitalism by mobilizing an ever wider and more diverse anti-capitalist front. In response to Chantal Mouffe. Green is in. The European ...

The Belgian philosopher’s influence on today’s left is unquestionable, but the transformative potential of her ideas is held back by conservatism. By Oliver Eagleton In January 1985, as Margaret ...

We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a 'populist moment' that signals the crisis of neoliberal hegemony. The central axis of the political conflict will be between right- and left-wing ...