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Vacuous drivel - Rated
I had a look at Ms Mouffe's book because apparently she and her husband are inspirational to the government of Argentina (where I was born), that abuses the Constitution, is openly corrupt, and politically inept. Ms Mouffe's pretentious, meaningless and ultimately malign drivel (since the kind of emotional politics she encourages is the sleep of reason) helped me understand the mentality behind such ineptitude.
Excellent critique of the extremism of today - Rated
In this work, Chantal Mouffe, half of the greatest political theoretical team in the world today,takes brilliant issue with the myth-making and fatuous intellectual basis of so-called neoliberalism and globalisation,critiquing their ability to create - and even the basis on which they fantasise about- a world in which a social consensus emerges in which we all rise up in a rapture over the triumph of global cut-throat capitalism,forgetting the political themes of the past which were, and indeed are, the site of many antagonisms ,such as everything from the concept of national sovereignty to local water rights in Africa.
In particular, Mouffe takes issue with the concept that we can create some illusory 'consensus' in the absence of the very thing which makes any consensus possible: antagonism and politics.
So this book is an amplification and more empirical exploration of issues touched on in the grand theoretical narrative (such as it can be!!) of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy.As such it is a concretisation of that more abstract work, and a key exploration of the present world situation.
