Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist and professor at the University of Westminster.
She co-authored the influential Hegemony and Socialist Strategy with Ernesto Laclau, establishing their post-Marxist political philosophy.
Active in 1960s social movements including second-wave feminism, Mouffe rejected Marxist economic determinism and singular class struggle.
Instead, she advocates for radical democracy based on agonistic pluralism, where multiple antagonisms can be expressed.
Her core belief asserts that society cannot exist without antagonism, and articulating competing visions of society is essential for its existence.
