{"id":27,"date":"2016-02-29T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/2016\/02\/29\/politics-and-passions-the-stakes-of-democracy\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T20:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T18:02:12","slug":"politics-and-passions-the-stakes-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/events\/workshops-seminars\/politics-and-passions-the-stakes-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Steve Biko Lectures in Philosophy
\n08 March 2016<\/h4>\n

13:00 – 16:00 – Madibeng Building, University of Johannesburg<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chantal Mouffe<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Westminister
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Respondents:
\n<\/strong>Shireen Hassim<\/strong> – University of the Witwatersrand<\/em>
\nPeter Hudson<\/strong> – University of the Witwatersrand
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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.<\/p>\n

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