On the other side of "agonism": "The enemy," the "outside," and the role of antagonism

dc.contributor.authorRoskamm, Nikolai
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-23T09:31:22Z
dc.date.available2017-10-23T09:31:22Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionDieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.de
dc.descriptionThis publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.en
dc.description.abstractThis article takes issue with Chantal Mouffe's concept of agonistic pluralism. With this concept, Mouffe brings political theory to the field of real politics. In planning theory, the concept of agonism has recently been used as an alternative to the consensual communicative deliberative approach: The notion of agonism seems to be fit for replacing communicative theory as the theoretical framework of planning theory. My point is that Mouffe's proposed agonistic pluralism has an internal and fundamental flaw and that the advocated taming of antagonism into agonism is neither possible nor necessary. To clarify my hypothesis, I consider in a first step the roots of Mouffe's theory: Carl Schmitt's notion of the political and his (in)famous friend/enemy concept. Schmitt's model is not only a main reference of Mouffe's work but the very reason of her calling for pluralistic agonism. In a second step, I turn to Ernesto Laclau's political theory where another version of antagonism model appears: the conceptualization of the constitutive outside as irreducible reason of an endless hegemonic play of antagonistic forces. I show the difference between Schmitt's and Laclau's models and argue that the rationale for a conceptualization of agonism disappears with the latter. In my conclusion, I discuss whether and how antagonism theory can be linked with planning theory without importing Mouffe's short circuit.en
dc.identifier.eissn1741-3052
dc.identifier.issn1473-0952
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/6802
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-6186
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.ddc510 Mathematikde
dc.subject.otheragonismen
dc.subject.otheragonistic planning theoryen
dc.subject.otherantagonismen
dc.subject.otherCarl Schmitten
dc.subject.otherChantal Mouffeen
dc.subject.otherconstitutive outsideen
dc.subject.otherErnesto Laclauen
dc.titleOn the other side of "agonism": "The enemy," the "outside," and the role of antagonismen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1177/1473095214533959
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue4
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitlePlanning theoryen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameSage Publicationsde
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceLondon [u.a.]de
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend403
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart384
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume14
tub.accessrights.dnbdomain
tub.affiliationFak. 6 Planen Bauen Umwelt::Inst. Stadt- und Regionalplanungde
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 6 Planen Bauen Umweltde
tub.affiliation.instituteInst. Stadt- und Regionalplanungde
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlin

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