Politics, Affects and Virtues. Notes for a Social-Republican Reorientation of the Radical Democratic Politics of Chantal Mouffe
Authors
-
Consuelo de la Torre del Pozo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3976-0640
Abstract
This essay points towards a critical reorientation of Chantal Mouffe’s radical democracy project, based on an analysis of the limitations of her approach to the political potential of affects. What I propose is a material recuperation of the political-social forms of “identification” that her discursive theoretical framework fails to adequately recognize and integrate, based on a transferential (Dean) and participatory understanding of the parties. In order to defend a “social-republican” citizenship, regulated by the social virtues necessary for the maintenance and strengthening of democratic commitment, against the threats of democratic disaffection, political polarization, and populist manipulation.
Keywords:
democracy, affects, populism, virtues, social-republican citizenshipReferences
Abts, K., Dalle Mulle, E., van Kessel, S., y Michel, E. (2021). The Welfare Agenda of the Populist Radical Right in Western Europe: Combining Welfare Chauvinism, Producerism and Populism. Swiss Politcal Science Review, 27(1), pp. 21-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12428.
Canetti, E. (1981). Masa y poder. Muchnik Editores.
Damhuis K., y Rashkova, E. (2024). The politics of resentment: what is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts? Front. Political Science, 6, pp. 1-14.
Dean, J. (2010). Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive. Polity Press.
___. (2017). Multitudes y partido. Katakrak. Deleuze, G. (1978). Lecture Transcripts on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect. Cours Vincennes. WebDeleuze. http://www.webdeleuze.com/php/sommaire.html.
Frank, A., y Sedgwick, E. (1995). Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins. Critical Inquiry, 21, pp. 496-522. https://doi.org/10.1086/448761.
Iyengar, S., Sood, G., y Lelkes, Y. (2012). Affect, Not Ideology: A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization. Public Opinion Quarterly, 76(3), pp. 405-431. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfs038.
Laclau, E. (2000). Nuevas reflexiones sobre la revolución de nuestro tiempo. Ediciones Nueva Visión.
___. (2004). Glimpsing the Future: A Reply. En S. Critchley, O. Marchart (Eds), Laclau: a Critical Reader (pp. 279-328). Routledge.
___. (2005). La razón populista. FCE.
Lordon, F. (2017). Los afectos de la política. Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza.
Macpherson, C. B. (2005). La teoría política del individualismo posesivo: de Hobbes a Locke. Trotta.
Mudde, C., y Rovira, C. (2017). Populism: a very short introduction. Oxford UP.
Massumi, B. (1995). The Autonomy of Affect. Cultural Critique, 106, pp. 83-109. https://blogs.brown.edu/hiaa-1810-s01-fall-2017/files/2017/08/Massumi.pdf.
Montesquieu (1987). Del espíritu de las leyes. Tecnos.
Mouffe, C. (1993). The Return of the Political. Verso.
___. (1999). El retorno a lo político. Paidós.
___. (2007). En torno a lo político. FCE.
___. (2013). Agonística: Pensar el mundo políticamente, traducción de S. Laclau, 2014. Buenos Aires: FCE.
___. (2016). Política y pasiones: el papel de los afectos en la perspectiva agonista. Valparaíso: Universidad de Valparaíso.
___. (2018). Por un populismo de izquierda, traducción de S. Laclau. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI.
___. (2022). Towards a Green Democratic Revolution. Verso.
Muldoon, J. (2021). Institutionalizing Radical Democracy: Socialist Republicanism and Democratizing the Economy. New Political Science, 43(2), pp. 189-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2021.1886797.
O’Shea, T. (2020). Socialist Republicanism. Political Theory, 48(5), pp. 548-572. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26966176.
Pappas, T. S. (2019). Populism and liberal democracy: A comparative and theoretical analysis. Oxford UP.
Popp-Madsen, B. A. (2023). Non-domination and constituent power: Socialist republicanism versus radical democracy. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 49(10), pp. 1182-1199. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537221107401.
Spinoza, B. (1980). Ética demostrada según el orden geométrico. Orbis.
Stavrakakis, Y. (2014a). Discourse Theory, Post-Hegemonic Critique and Chantal Mouffe’s Politics of the Passions. Parallax, 20, pp. 118-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.896557.
Stavrakakis, Y, (2014b). Hegemony or Post-Hegemony? Discourse, Representation and the Revenge(s) of the Real. En G. Katsambekis, A. Kioupkiolis (Eds.), Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today. Ashgate.
Torcal, M., y Montero, J. R. (2006). Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies: Social Capital, Institutions and Politics. Routledge.
