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A powerful new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism

About the Author

Chantal Mouffe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Her books include The Return of the Political; Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau); The Dimensions of Radical Democracy; Gramsci and Marxist Theory; Deconstruction and Pragmatism; The Democratic Paradox; and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, all from Verso.

Reviews

Evocative and challenging.
*Radical Philosophy*

An indispensable read.
*Harvard Educational Review*

Her work evinces an impressive political prescience...In a rare feat for a political theorist, Mouffe's texts have inspired left parties and politicians, like Podemos and Jean-Luc Melénchon, to frame their projects as a democratic struggle against unrepresentative elites.
*n+1*

With eerie accuracy, Mouffe anticipated today's political world.
*The Guardian*