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Reclaim democracy through left populism.

"For a Left Populism" is an insightful read for those interested in understanding the current political landscape. Mouffe explains how populism can be a tool to reestablish democracy and why it is often viewed as a negative ideology. The book emphasizes the need for a partisan character in politics and gives a clarion call to mobilize an "underdog" against "those in power". This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the role of populism in contemporary politics.

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ISBN: 9781786637550
Publisher: Verso Books
Date of Publication: 2018-07-10
Format: Hardback
Related Collections: Politics, Philosophy
Related Topics: Political Science, Theory, Society
Goodreads rating: 3.6
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Populism, today, is the expression of a crisis of liberal-democratic politics. It is more than an ideology or a political regime. It is a way of doing politics that can take various forms but emerges when one aims at building a new subject of collective action - the people. In this new book the leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism. The political is to be constructed by establishing a political frontier that divides society into two camps, mobilising an "underdog" against "those in power". Populism, far from being a perversion of democracy, constitutes the most adequate political force to recover and reconstitute itself. This new politics must recognise its partisan character. This presents itself as more than the image of demagoguery and emotive rabbles seen across our media. Furthermore, it is an urgent struggle, because the future will be formed by the kind of populism that emerges victorious from the conflict against the current threats of post-politics and post-democracy.


Author: Chantal Mouffe
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 176
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Date: 10 Jul 2018
 

Reclaim democracy through left populism.

"For a Left Populism" is an insightful read for those interested in understanding the current political landscape. Mouffe explains how populism can be a tool to reestablish democracy and why it is often viewed as a negative ideology. The book emphasizes the need for a partisan character in politics and gives a clarion call to mobilize an "underdog" against "those in power". This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the role of populism in contemporary politics.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.