Which Democracy for a Multipolar World?
Chantal Mouffe, Professor of political theory and director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster
Date: 28 November 2012Time: 6:30 PM
Finishes: 28 November 2012Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: Brunei GalleryRoom: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Lecture
Series: The Globalisation Lectures
Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London. She has taught and researched in many universities in Europe, North America and South America and she is a corresponding member of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. She is the editor of Gramsci and Marxist Theory (London, 1979), Dimensions of Radical Democracy. Pluralism, Citizenship, Community (London, 1992), Deconstruction and Pragmatism (London, 1996) and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, (London, 1999); the co-author with Ernesto Laclau of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London, 1985) and the author of The Return of the Political (London, 1993), The Democratic Paradox (London, 2000) and On the Political (London, 2005).
Contact email: ga3@soas.ac.uk
