Este artigo discute as contribuições do segundo Wittgenstein para uma discussão sobre democracias contemporâneas, a partir da leitura política das noções wittgensteinianas contidas nas Investigações filosóficas e no Da Certeza feita pela teórica Chantal Mouffe. Mostraremos que interpretação mouffeana é relevante compreensão dimensão agonística contemporâneas. O texto divide-se em duas partes: p...

Chantal Mouffe is one of the most discussed political theorists recent years. One her important theoretical contributions critique deliberative democracy for its inability to think in terms antagonism and dissensus. The aim this paper therefore examine what extent Mouffe’s theory democracy, which she calls “agonistic pluralism” proposes as an alternative can be used about role parliamentary ins...

Post-foundational Discourse Theory (PFDT), initially developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, provides a systematic discursive perspective on political phenomena, the economy included. However, ever since Mouffe rejected economism in their Hegemony Social Strategy: Towards Radical Democratic Politics (HSS), as an object of study has failed to receive attention it deserves within this str...

Today in Europe we are witnessing a populist turn, could even speak of “populist moment” that signals the crisis neoliberal democracy. According to Chantal Mouffe, “the is expression set heterogeneous demands, which cannot be formulated traditional right/left frontier. The battles our time will between right-wing and left-wing populism. Although current state liberal societies appears favor dev...