Post-foundationalism and the Possibility of Critique: Comparing Laclau and Mouffe

Hildebrand, Marius; Séville, Astrid

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“…Moreover, a discursive approach recognizes the central position of affect in social identification (and therefore, politics). With regards to populist articulation, affect is not considered separate from reason, but rather intrinsic to it (Hildebrand and Séville 2019). What makes populist politics so successful is that it compensates for the impossible desire to complete social identification by representing the “other” as the obstacle, or outside, to attaining wholeness and closure (Hildebrand and Séville 2019).…”

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“…With regards to populist articulation, affect is not considered separate from reason, but rather intrinsic to it (Hildebrand and Séville 2019). What makes populist politics so successful is that it compensates for the impossible desire to complete social identification by representing the “other” as the obstacle, or outside, to attaining wholeness and closure (Hildebrand and Séville 2019). Therefore, the “people” are considered a phantasmatic object upon which political agents and social subjects can project their desires and constitutive lack .…”

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“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics

Heupner

2022

Politics and Religion

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Since the 2005 Jyllands-Posten controversy, both far right and Islamist actors have employed Muhammed cartoons to construct a radical frontier between Muslims and non-Muslims. This article aims to provide a better understanding of the linkages between two opposing forms of popular identification by looking at the utilization of the Muhammed cartoons to crystallize a multitude of (conflicting) subjects, affects, and demands. Following a vantage point of mutual relations, the article investigates the discursive performances of the Dutch branch of the transnational Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir and the far right Party for Freedom with respect to the Jyllands-Posten affair, the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks, and the 2020 killing of a French schoolteacher. Considering its cultural and political foundations of mutual respect and tolerance, the Dutch case is pertinent for examining the tension between the right to free speech and support for extremist and popular forms of (far right and Islamist) identification.

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Section: Connecting Far Right and Islamist Politicsmentioning

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“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics

Heupner

2022

Politics and Religion

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“…Critics have accused her either of giving too much leeway to uncontrollable politicization (Aytac, 2020) or of establishing too strict limits to politicization (Devenney, 2020). This means that her theory is either too relativistic to have any basis for distinguishing between various regimes (Hildebrand and Séville, 2019) or that it relies on objective principles insofar as it contradicts the postfoundational idea of radical contingency (Marttila and Gengnagel, 2015). Furthermore, her reliance on the radical conservative and National Socialist legal theorist, Carl Schmitt, has been criticized for institutionalizing politics (Palonen, 2007;Boucher, 2019); alternatively, it has been claimed that her theory underestimates the role of institutions (Leiviskä, 2018).…”

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Depoliticization of politics and power: Mouffe and the conservative disposition in postfoundational political theory

Brunila

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Postfoundational political theory has been criticized for being incapable of establishing a normative basis for politics. This is because postfoundationalism's conception of the “political” as a radical contingency disproves the existence of an objective ground that would make it possible to evaluate political movements from a neutral position. In this article, I counter this critique by distinguishing between Chantal Mouffe's political theory and other postfoundational theories based on their respective normative implications. This is done by explicating how Mouffe's way of conceptualizing the political implies a conservative political disposition. In order to accomplish this, I develop an understanding of the conservative political disposition, which refers to the normative idea that police power is necessary for producing and upholding a social order. Through an analysis of Carl Schmitt's theory, I elaborate that the conservative disposition is an attempt to justify the depoliticization of social relations. On the basis of this idea that some political theories have normative implications that are in line with the conservative disposition, I examine postfoundationalism. My argument is that while Mouffe's theory does imply the idea that police power is necessary, this is not the case with other postfoundational theories. On the contrary, other postfoundational democratic theories categorically deny that a form of power, namely police power, would be necessary.

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Kamel Daoud, the Colonizer and the Fatwa: Negotiating Islam in Algeria

Schwaderer

2021

Exploring Islam Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism

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Post-foundationalism and the Possibility of Critique: Comparing Laclau and Mouffe

Cited by 4 publications

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“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics

“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics

Depoliticization of politics and power: Mouffe and the conservative disposition in postfoundational political theory

Kamel Daoud, the Colonizer and the Fatwa: Negotiating Islam in Algeria

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