Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy

The Steve Biko Lectures in Philosophy
08 March 2016

13:00 – 16:00 – Madibeng Building, University of Johannesburg

Chantal Mouffe
University of Westminister

Respondents:
Shireen Hassim – University of the Witwatersrand
Peter Hudson – University of the Witwatersrand

This lecture examines the limitations of liberal democratic theory in understanding the nature of the political and its incapacity to envisage democratic politics in an adequate way. It proposes a new agonistic approach aiming at transforming antagonism into agonism.