Abstract

VIDIELLA, Graciela. Democracia: ¿razones o pasiones?. Tópicos [online]. 2013, n.25, pp.00-00. ISSN 1666-485X.

According to Chantal Mouffe, deliberative conceptions of democracy reject the political phenomenon. This is evident when a rational consensus to deny the conflict -politically unavoidable- is supported. Another error she also underlines is to privilege rational more than emotional elements in order to consider actions motivation. As an alternative she proposes radical democracy centered on the one hand at the idea of "hegemony", according to the opposition us-them and in the other at the passions involved in politics. The author maintains that deliberative democracy can face successfully each one of those critics. After reconstructing the normative elements that radical democracy contains, the argument proves that it fails in the pretention to be an alternative to liberal democracy status-quo since it dissolves validity in facticity.

Keywords : Deliberation; Argumentative consensus; Conflict; Motivation; Hegemony.

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