Patočka Debate 2019: Which Future for Democracy in a Post-political Age with Chantal Mouffe
The Institute of International Relations in cooperation with Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) Vienna and Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague organized Patočka Debate 2019 on "Which Future for Democracy in a Post-political Age", which took place on June 20 2019, 18:30 at Faculty of Arts, Charles University, nám. Jana Palacha, room 200.
Informace
| Datum: | 20.06.2019 |
| Čas: | 18:30 |
| Místo: | Faculty of Arts, Charles University, nám. Jana Palacha, room 200 |
| Spolupráce: | The Institute for Human Sciences Vienna; Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague |
| Organizuje: | The Institute of International Relations Prague |
The lecture analyzed the current conjuncture in Western liberal democracies and the reasons for the increasing success of right-wing populist movements. It elaborated the thesis that the only way to fight against those movements is to develop left populist alternatives. Specifically, it was argued that it is a lack of understanding for the dynamics of politics and the role of affects in the formation of collective identities that explains the failure of social democratic parties in offering an appropriate answer to the right-wing populist challenge.
Chantal Mouffe is Visiting Fellow at IWM and professor of Political Theory at the University of Westminster in London, where she is also the module leader of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD). She has taught at many universities in Europe, North America and Latin America, and has held research positions at Harvard, Cornell, the University of California, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.
Discussant: Pavel Barša (Professor, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Moderator: Ondřej Ditrych (Director, Institute of International Relations Prague)
Nahoru
Tomáš Profant