LANGUAGE GAMES BETWEEN PLURALIST AGONISM AND RADICAL DEMOCRACY: USES OF WITTGENSTEIN IN THE WORK OF CHANTAL MOUFFE
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.55.2025.33064Keywords:
Language games, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Chantal Mouffe, Radical democracy, Political TheoryAbstract
The objective of this work is to make an approach to the critical appropriation of Wittgensteinian philosophy by Chantal Mouffe. I will begin by exposing the anti-essentialist and indeterminist thesis proposed by Wittgenstein and his notion of language games through their characterization as family resemblances and forms of life. Then, I will expose the Mouffian theoretical framework: the anti-essentialist and indeterminist conception of political subjects and society and the notion of discourse indebted to Wittgensteinian philosophy. Next, I will show how such a conception of language allows Mouffe to analyze liberalism in terms of family resemblances and confront it through the idea of discourse as hegemony, agonism, and affect. Finally, I will show how linguistic games allow you to understand an agonistic pluralism through the discussion of concepts and how these, inessential and unlimited, contaminate and complement each other, making possible the democratic paradox under the terms "equality" and "freedom".
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