Shireen Hassim to Speak at the Next Steve Biko Lecture, University of Johannesburg

Submitted 8 years 9 months ago by Sarah Emily Duff.

Politics and Passions: the Stakes of Democracy

Chantal Mouffe
University of Westminster

Tuesday 8th of March 2016

Respondents:
Shireen Hassim, University of the Witwatersrand
Peter Hudson, University of the Witwatersrand

Venue: Madibeng Building, University of Johannesburg

Time: 13:00PM-16:00PM

This lecture examines the limitations of liberal democratic theory in understanding the nature of the political and its incapacity to envisage democratic politics in an adequate way. It proposes a new agonistic approach aiming at transforming antagonism into agonism.​

All welcome.​

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