Abstract

GIACAGLIA, Mirta A.. Ch. Mouffe y E. Laclau: una lectura de los aportes  de Ludwig Wittgenstein para pensar la idea de democracia  radical y plural. Tópicos [online]. 2004, n.12, pp.125-136. ISSN 1666-485X.

E. Laclau and Ch. Mouffe's theory of discourse retakes the categories of "language games" and "forms of life" in order to elaborate his conception of discourse and think democracy. Inasmuch Wittgenstein's philosophy constitutes an attempt to live accepting relativity, doubt and the absence of God, it allows for the breaking up with the way of universalization and homogenization that has characterized the majority of liberal theories and for the acceptance that power and struggles for power are constituent part of democracy, laying stress in this way on decision and responsibility. Respect of differences, acceptance of dissent and the extension of these practices to all spheres of social life, will allow us to proceed towards the construction of a radical and plural democracy.

Keywords : Laclau; Mouffe; Wittgenstein.

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