Preispitivanje pluralističkog agonizma Chantal Mouffe

master's thesis

• Title (english): Reconsidering Chantal Mouffe's Pluralistic Agonism
• Author: Filip Talijić
• Mentor: Hrvoje Cvijanović (mentor)
• Committee member: Hrvoje Cvijanović (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Zoran Kurelić (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Tonči Kursar (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; The Faculty of Political Science; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2023-02-14, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science

Abstract

U nedavnoj povijesti, unutar liberalnih demokracija svjedočimo porastu društvenih i političkih antagonizama koji predstavljaju izazov stabilnosti njihova poretka. Chantal Mouffe identificira srž problema u racionalizmu moderne demokratske misli i centrističkim političkim akterima. Protiv njih predlaže vlastitu inačicu agonističke demokracije koja uvažava neiskorjenjivu karakteristiku političkog kao sfere antagonizma i razlike, ali koja ujedno time može i ovladati u korist liberalne demokracije. Njezino razumijevanje agonizma polazi od aproprijacije političke misli Carla Schmitta. Pregled Schmittovog egzistencijalnog spram Mouffinog diskurzivnog poimanja političkog pruža uvid na koji se način Mouffe slaže ali i distancira od Schmitta, te osvijetljava ključne pojmove koji oblikuju središnju tvrdnju agonističkog pluralizma. Radi se o istinski političkoj teoriji i sustavu koji može održati političko jedinstvo države moderne demokracije u uvjetima konstitutivnog pluralizma. Razmatrajući kritiku Mouffine misli iz kuta deliberativne demokracije i na primjeru desnog populizma Donalda Trumpa, autor propituje navedenu tvrdnju i ponovno potvrđuje ulogu deliberacije kao korisnu kako agonističkom pluralizmu, tako i aktualnoj političkoj situaciji unutar SAD-a.

Abstract (english)

In recent history and within liberal democracies we can bear witness to a growing number of social and political antagonisms that present a challenge to the stability of such orders. Chantal Mouffe identifies the core of the problem in the rationalism of modern democratic strains of thought and centrist political actors. In contrast, Mouffe suggests her own version of agonistic democracy that accepts the political as a sphere of ineradicable antagonism and differenc, but which can also control it to the benefit of liberal democracy. Her understanding of agonism derives from an appropriation of Carl Schmitt’s political thought. A review of Schmitt’s existential against Mouffe’s discursive understanding of the political brings insight in the way in which Mouffe both agrees and distances herself from Schmitt. It also sheds light on key conceptions that form the central claim of agonistic pluralism. It is a truly political theory and system which can preserve the political unity of a modern democratic state in the conditions of constitutive pluralism. Considering deliberative democratic criticism of her theory and through the example of Donald Trumps right wing populism, the author questions this claim and reaffirms the role of deliberation as useful to both Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism and the actual political situation within the United States.

• Keywords: agonistički pluralizam; političko; političko jedinstvo; desni populizam; deliberacija
• Keywords (english): agonistic pluralism; the political; political unity; right populism; deliberation
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:114:002014
• Study programme: Title: Political Science; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra politologije (magistar/magistra politologije)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2023-03-20 09:03:54