Chantal Mouffe

Chantal Mouffe (17 June 1943, Charleroi, Belgium) is a political theorist, formerly teaching at University of Westminster.

Publications

• editor, Gramsci and Marxist Theory, London: Routledge, 1979, vii+288 pp. Review: Schwarz (Radical Phil), Kann (Am Pol Sci Rev). (English)

• with Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, trans. Winston Moore and Paul Cammack, London: Verso, 1985, 197 pp; 2nd ed., new pref., 2001, HTML; repr., 2013. Examines the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. (English)
  • Hegemonía y estrategia socialista, Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1987. (Spanish)
  • Hegemonija in socialistična strategija: k radikalni demokratični politiki, trans. Jelica Šumič-Riha, Ljubljana: Partizanska knjiga, 1987, 157 pp. Review: Kobe (Fil vestnik). (Slovenian)
  • 사회변혁과 헤게모니, trans. Kim Sung-ki, Seoul, 1990, 302 pp. [1] (Korean)
  • Hegemonie und radikale Demokratie. Zur Dekonstruktion des Marxismus, eds., trans. & intro. Michael Hintz and Gerd Vorwallner, Vienna: Passagen, 1991, 282 pp; 2nd ed., rev., 2000, 258 pp. (German)
  • Posuto marukusu shugi to seiji: Kongenteki minshu shugi no tameni [ポスト・マルクス主義と政治――根源的民主主義のために], trans. Kaoru Yamasaki (山崎カヲル) and Takeshi Ishizawa (石澤武), Tokyo: Ōmura (大村), 1992; repr., 2000. (Japanese)
  • Wen hua ba quan he she hui zhu yi de zhan lue [文化霸權和社會主義的戰略], trans. Zhangjin Chen, Taipei: Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 1994, viii+285 pp. (Chinese)
  • Demokrati og hegemoni, ed. & trans. Carsten Jensen, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1997, 211 pp. Trans. of selected texts from 1977-1990. Review: Corydon (Politica). (Danish)
  • Det radikale demokrati: diskursteoriens politiske perspektiv, trans. Torben Clausen, Frederiksberg: Roskilde Universitetsforlag, 2002, 274 pp. (Danish)
  • Hegemonyah ṿe-asṭraṭegyah sotsiʼalisṭit: li-ḳerat poliṭiḳah demoḳraṭit radiḳalit, trans. ʻIdit Shorer, Tel Aviv: Resling, 2004, 214 pp. (Hebrew)
  • Hegemonin och den socialistiska strategin, trans. Carl-Michael Edenborg, intro. Klas Gustavsson, Göteborg: Glänta, and Stockholm: Vertigo, 2008, 260 pp. (Swedish)
  • Hegemonya ve Sosyalist Strateji. Radikal Demokratik Bir Politikaya Doğru, trans. Ahmet Kardam, Istanbul: İletişim, 2008. [2] (Turkish)
  • Hégémonie et stratégie socialiste: vers une démocratie radicale, trans. Julien Abriel, Besançon: Les Solitaires Intempestifs, 2009, 336 pp; repr. as Hégémonie et stratégie socialiste: vers une radicalisation de la démocratie, Paris: Fayard, 2019, 320 pp. Review: Grannis (Lectures). (French)
  • Egemonia e strategia socialista. Verso una politica democratica radicale, trans. Fortunato Cacciatore and Michele Filippini, Genova: Il Melangolo, 2011, EPUB. (Italian)
  • Minshu shugi no kakumei: hegemonī to posuto marukusu shugi [民主主義の革命――ヘゲモニーとポスト・マルクス主義], trans. Ryo Nishinaga (西永亮) and Makoto Chiba (千葉眞), Tokyo: Chikuma (ちくま学芸文庫), 2012. (Japanese)
  • 헤게모니와 사회주의 전략: 급진 민주주의 정치를 향하여, trans. Lee Seung Won (이승원), Seoul: Humanitas, 2012, 343 pp. (Korean)
  • Hegemonie a socialistická strategie: za radikálně demokratickou politiku, trans. Rudolf Převrátil, Prague: Karolinum, 2014, 234 pp. Excerpt, Excerpt. TOC. Publisher. Review: Metelec (A2). (Czech)

• editor, Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community, London: Verso, 1992, 253 pp. What kinds of “citizen” and “community” might be required by a new, radical and plural democracy? Publisher. (English)

• The Return of the Political, London: Verso, 1993, vii+156 pp; repr., 2005. A new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism. Publisher. Reviews: Eisenberg (Sci & Society), Fukuyama (Foreign Affairs). (English)
  • O regresso do político, trans. Ana Cecília Simões and José Soares de Almeida, Lisbon: Gradiva, 1996, 206 pp. (Portuguese)
  • Seijitekinaru mono no saikō [政治的なるものの再興], trans. Makoto Chiba (千葉眞), Yoshinori Doi (土井美徳), Tomohiko Tanaka (田中智彦), and Ryusaku Yamada (山田竜作), Nihon Keizai (日本経済評論社), 1998. (Japanese)
  • El retorno de lo político, trans. Marco Aurelio Galmarini, Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1999, 207 pp. (Spanish)
  • 정치적인 것의 귀환, Seoul: Humanitas, 2007. (Korean)
  • Zheng zhi de hui gui [政治的回归], Nan jing: Jiang su ren min chu ban she, 2008, 178 pp. (Chinese)
  • Siyasetin Dönüşü, trans. Fahri Bakırcı and Ali Çolak, Ankara: Epos, 2010, 228 pp. (Turkish)

• Le politique et ses enjeux. Pour une démocratie plurielle, Paris: La Découverte/MAUSS, 1994. (French)

• editor, Deconstruction and Pragmatism, pref. Chantal Mouffe, intro. Simon Critchley and Ernesto Laclau, London: Routledge, 1996, ix+88 pp. A staged debate between Derrida and Rorty, itself based on discussions that took place at the College International de Philosophie in Paris in 1993. Publisher. Review: Jagger (Radical Phil). (English)
  • Yapıbozum ve Pragmatizm, trans. Tuncay Birkan, Istanbul: Sarmal, 1998; repr., Istanbul: İletişim, 2016, 144 pp. [3] (Turkish)
  • Dekonstruktion und Pragmatismus. Demokratie, Wahrheit und Vernunft, Vienna: Passagen 1999. (German)
  • Datsukōchiku to puragumatizumu: kitarubeki minshu shugi [脱構築とプラグマティズム――来たるべき民主主義], trans. Takayoshi Aoki (青木隆嘉), Tokyo: Hōsei University Press (法政大学出版局), 2002; repr., 2013. (Japanese)

• Quelle citoyenneté pour quelle démocratie? conférence-débat avec l'Association Démosthène, Démosthène, 1997. (French)

• editor, The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, London: Verso, 1999, 212 pp. Collection of responses to Carl Schmitt in a “post-political” age. Publisher. Review: Wiley (Th & Event). (English)
  • Kāru shumitto no chōsen [カール・シュミットの挑戦], trans. Keita Koga (古賀敬太) and Makoto Sano (佐野誠編), Tokyo: Fūkōsha (風行社), 2006. (Japanese)
  • Carl Schmitt - wyzwanie polityczności, trans. Tomasz Leśniak, et al., Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2011, 286 pp. Publisher. (Polish)
  • Carl Schmitt'in Meydan Okuması, trans. Hivren Demir Atay and Hakan Atay, Istanbul: İletişim, 2019, 295 pp. [4] (Turkish)

• The Democratic Paradox, London: Verso, 2000, xii+143 pp, PDF. A new understanding of democracy that acknowledges the inescapable and essential antagonism in its workings. Publisher. Review: Tully (Polit Th). (English)
  • La paradoja democrática, trans. Tomás Fernández Aúz and Beatriz Eguibar, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003. (Spanish)
  • To dimokratiko paradoxo [Το δημοκρατικό παράδοξο], intro. Giannēs Staurakakēs (Γιάννης Σταυρακάκης), trans. Alexandros Kioupkiolis (Αλέξανδρος Κιουπκιολής), Athens: Polis (Πόλις), 2004, 288 pp. Review: Ταμπακάκη. (Greek)
  • Paradoks demokracji, intro. Leszek Koczanowicz, trans. Wojciech Jach, Magdalena Kamińska, and Andrzej Orzechowski, Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Dolnośląskiej Szkoły Wyższej Edukacji TWP, 2005, 155 pp. (Polish)
  • Min zhu de diao gui [民主的弔詭], trans. Shufen Lin, Taipei: Ju liu tu shu you xian gong si, 2005, xxix+126 pp. (Chinese)
  • Minshu shugi no gyakusetsu [民主主義の逆説], trans. Hirotaka Kasai (葛西弘隆), Tokyo: Ibunsha (以文社), 2006. (Japanese)
  • Das demokratische Paradox, trans. & intro. Oliver Marchart, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2008; repr., 2018, 139 pp. Publisher. (German)
  • Demokratik Paradoks, trans. Cevdet Aşkın, Ankara: Epos, 2009, 143 pp. (Turkish)
  • Le paradoxe démocratique, trans. Denyse Beaulieu, Paris: Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2016, 152 pp. (French)

• Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism, Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies, 2000, 17 pp. (English)

• editor, with Jürgen Trinks, Feministische Perspektiven, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2001, 251 pp. Publisher. (German)

• editor, with Ludwig Nagl, The Legacy of Wittgenstein: Pragmatism or Deconstruction, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001, 164 pp. (English)

• Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy, London: Centre for the Study of Democracy, 2002, 16 pp. (English)
  • Politica e passioni: il ruolo degli affetti nella prospettiva agonistica, trans. Samuele Mazzolini, Rome: Castelvecchi, 2020, 44 pp. (Italian)

• On the Political, London: Routledge, 2005, 144 pp. Publisher. Reviews: Pugh (Area), Featherstone (Area), Marres (Area), Thien (Area), Wenman (Contemp Polit Th), Engel (Redescriptions), Tally (Postmodern Culture), Kolář (A2, CZ). (English)
  • En torno a lo político, Madrid: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007. (Spanish)
  • Über das Politische. Wider die kosmopolitische Illusion, trans. Niels Neumeier, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2007. (German)
  • Sul politico: democrazia e rappresentazione dei conflitti, trans. Sandro d'Alessandro, Milan: Mondadori, 2007, 164 pp. (Italian)
  • Over het politieke, trans. Leon Otto de Vries, Utrecht: Klement/Kampen, 2008, 148 pp. (Dutch)
  • Seijiteki na mono ni tsuite: tōgiteki minshu shugi to tagen shugiteki gurōbaru chitsujo no kōchiku [政治的なものについて――闘技的民主主義と多元主義的グローバル秩序の構築], trans. Masatake Shinohara (篠原雅武), Tokyo: Akashi (明石書店), 2008. (Japanese)
  • Om det politiska, trans. Oskar Söderlind, Hägersten: Tankekraft, 2008, 135 pp. (Swedish)
  • Polityczność: przewodnik krytyki politycznej, trans. Joanna Erbel, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2008, 173 pp. Publisher. (Polish)
  • Epi tou politikou [Επί του πολιτικού], trans. Alexandros Kioupkiolis (Αλέξανδρος Κιουπκιολής), Athens: Ekkremés (Εκκρεμές), 2010, 160 pp. (Greek)
  • Siyasal Üzerine, trans. Mehmet Ratip, Istanbul: İletişim, 2010. [5] (Turkish)
  • Om det politiske, trans. Lars Holm-Hansen, afterw. Simen Andersen Øyen, Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2015, 171 pp. (Norwegian)
  • L'illusion du consensus, trans. Pauline Colonna d'Istria, Paris: Albin Michel, 2016, 170 pp. (French)
  • Lun zheng zhi de ben xing [论政治的本性], trans. Fan Zhou, Nanjing: Jiang su ren min chu ban she, 2016, 183 pp. (Chinese)

• Exodus und Stellungskrieg. Die Zukunft radikaler Politik, trans. & intro. Oliver Marchart, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2005, 64 pp. Publisher. (German)

• Prácticas artísticas y democracia agonística, Barcelona: Macba, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2007. [6] (Spanish)

• Hegemony, Radical Democracy, and the Political, ed. James Martin, London: Routledge, 2013, 256 pp. Reviews: Thomassen (RECP), Inston (Eur Legacy). (English)

• Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically, London: Verso, 2013, 149 pp, EPUB. Passionate defense of “the political”. Publisher. Reviews: Hodgson (Marx & Phil), Thomassen (RECP), Jerbić (Eur studije, CR), Tambakaki (Polit Stud Rev). (English)
  • Agonistique: penser politiquement le monde, trans. Denyse Beaulieu, Paris: Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2014, 164 pp, Scribd. (French)
  • Agonistik – Die Welt politisch denken, trans. Richard Barth, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2014. (German)
  • Agonística: pensar el mundo políticamente, trans. Soledad Laclau, Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014, 146 pp. Excerpt. (Spanish)
  • Dünyayı Politik Düşünmek. Agonistik Siyaset, trans. Murat Bozluolcay, Istanbul: İletişim, 2015, 166 pp. [7]. Review: Aliu (Insan & Toplum). (Turkish)
  • Agonistika: misliti svet politično, trans. Aleksandra Rekar, forew. Peter Klepec, Ljubljana: Maska, 2015, 169 pp. (Slovenian)
  • Agonistyka: polityczne myślenie o świecie, trans. Barbara Szelewa, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2015, 144 pp. [8] (Polish)
  • Il conflitto democratico, trans. Davide Tarizzo, Milan/Udine: Mimesis, 2015, 177 pp. (Italian)
  • Agonistik: texter om att tänka världen politiskt, trans. Henrik Gundenäs, Stockholm: Atlas, 2016, 189 pp. (Swedish)
  • Gyeonghapdeul [경합들: 갈등과 적대의 세계를 정치적으로 사유하기], trans. Jeongyeon Seo, Seoul: Nanjang, 2020, 240 pp. (Korean)

• For a Left Populism, London: Verso, 2018, EPUB. What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left? Publisher. Interviews: Misik (IWM, video), Trickett (LRB, audio). Reviews: Jäger (Jacobin), Jäger & Borriello (Jacobin), Scott (Radical Phil), Longo (LSE), Dyer-Witheford (tripleC), Riofrancos (n+1), Fassin (Krisis), Castrelo (Sociology), Davies (Guardian), Hockenos (IPS), Demir (Rethinking Marxism), Puente (Socialist Rev), Hughes (Outline), Rollmann (PopMatters), Cariño (Kritike), Green (New Socialist), Verbauwhede (Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme, FR). (English)
  • Pour un populisme de gauche, Paris: Albin Michel, 2018, 144 pp. (French)
  • Für einen linken Populismus, trans. Richard Barth, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2018, 110 pp. (German)
  • Per un populismo di sinistra, trans. Diego Ferrante, Bari: Laterza, 2018, xvi+95 pp. (Italian)
  • Sol Popülizm, trans. Aybars Yanık, Istanbul: İletişim, 2019, 136 pp. [9] (Turkish)
  • For venstrepopulisme, Copenhagen: Solidaritet, 2019, 125 pp. (Danish)
  • Saha popyurizumu no tame ni [左派ポピュリズムのために], trans. Kei Yamamoto (山本圭) and Jun Shiota (塩田潤訳), Tokyo: Akashi (明石書店), 2019, 149 pp. (Japanese)
  • Xie gei zuo yi min cui zhu yi [寫給左翼民粹主義], trans. Tianshuai Yang, Xianggang: Shou min chu ban she, 2019, xiii+113 pp. (Chinese)
  • W obronie lewicowego populizmu, trans. Barbara Szelewa, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2020, 176 pp. Excerpt. Publisher. (Polish)
  • Fāmāṁśika janapriyavādayak san̆dahā [වාමාංශික ජනප්‍රියවාදයක් සඳහා], trans. Ramin̆du Perērā, Dehiwala, Colombo: Vidāsan Prakāśakayō, 2021, 154 pp. (Sinhalese)

• Towards A Green Democratic Revolution: Left Populism and the Power of Affects, London: Verso, forthcoming Nov 2022, 112 pp. (English)

Selected articles

• with Ernesto Laclau, "Socialist Strategy: Where Next?", trans. Mike Mullan, Marxism Today, Jan 1981, pp 17-22. (English)

• with Ernesto Laclau, "Post-Marxism without Apologies", New Left Review 166, Nov-Dec 1987, pp 79-106, HTML; repr. in Post-Marxism: A Reader, ed. Stuart Sim, Edinburgh University Press, 1998. [10]. Response to critique by Normas Geras (May-Jun 1987); followed by Geras's reply (May-Jun 1988). (English)
  • "Μετα-μαρξισμός χωρίς διάθεση απολογίας", trans. Δημήτρης Παπαζαχαρίας and Γρηγόρης Ανανιάδης, Σύγχρονα Θέματα 130-131, Jul-Dec 2015, pp 135-155. (Greek)

• "Citizenship and Political Identity", October 61: "The Identity in Question", Summer 1992, pp 28-32. (English)

Conversations, interviews, debates

• with Anders Stephanson, Cornel West, and Joan Scott, "Discussion", October 61: "The Identity in Question", Summer 1992, pp 33-41. (English)

• with Judith Butler, Stanley Aronowitz, Ernesto Laclau, Joan Scott, and Cornel West, "Discussion", October 61: "The Identity in Question", Summer 1992, pp 108-120. (English)

• Elke Wagner, "Und jetzt, Frau Mouffe?", in Und jetzt? Politik, Protest und Propaganda, ed. Heinrich Geiselberger, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2007. Conducted in 2007 in London. (German)
  • "Interview with Chantal Mouffe", in Mouffe, Agonistics, 2013, pp 129-146. (English)
  • "Demokratyczna polityka musi być stronnicza", Krytyka polityczna, 21 Feb 2015. Abridged version. (Polish)

• with Pablo Iglesias, "Otra Vuelta de Tuerka", LaTuerka, Feb 2015, 53 min. Video. (Spanish)

• with Íñigo Errejón, Construir pueblo. Hegemonía y radicalización de la democracia, Barcelona: Icaria, 2015, 144 pp. Conversation. Publisher. Video, Oct 2015, 68 min. (Spanish)
  • Podemos: In the Name of the People, trans. Sirio Canos, pref. Owen Jones, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2016, 160 pp. Publisher. (English)
  • Construire un peuple, pour une radicalisation de la démocratie, Paris: Cerf, 2017, 256 pp. (French)

• with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, "People's Time", Oct 2016, 140 min. Video. (French)

• with François Ruffin, "Théorie et pratique du populisme de gauche", Aug 2017, 95 min. Video. (French)

Literature

• Aletta Norval, "Aversive Democracy: Inheritance and Originality in the Democratic Tradition"

• Anna Marie Smith, Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary, London: Routledge, 1998. (English)

• Jacob Torfing, New Theories of Discourse: Laclau, Mouffe, Zizek, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. (English)

• Oliver Marchart, Post-foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau, Edinburgh University Press, 2007, 198 pp. (English)

• Martin Nonhoff, Diskurs – radikale Demokratie – Hegemonie. Zum politischen Denken von Ernesto Laclau und Chantal Mouffe, Bielefeld: transcript, 2007. (German)

• Geoff Boucher, The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Zizek, Melbourne: re.press, 2008, 275 pp. (English)

• Rahel Sophia Süß, Kollektive Handlungsfähigkeit. Gramsci – Holzkamp – Laclau/Mouffe, forew. Oliver Marchart, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2010, 183 pp. Publisher. (German)

• Parallax 20(2): "Chantal Mouffe: Agonism and the Politics of Passion", ed. Paulina Tambakaki, 2014. [11] (English)

• McKenzie Wark, "Chantal Mouffe: Democracy Versus Liberalism", ch 11 in Wark, General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century, London: Verso, 2017. (English)

See also

• Ernesto Laclau

Links

• Profile on U Westminster (archived)
• Wikipedia