Conflict and consensus

how to imagine democracy

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2525-8036.2022.38182

Keywords:

Reason, Passion, Democracy, Socialism, Public debate

Abstract

This paper aims, after acknowledging the importance of Mouffe’s perspective in underlining that conflict is inherent to society, to overcome the limitations that her approach shows in dealing with the duality of conflict and consensus. To this end, it presents the idea that the medieval trio of truth, goodness and beauty represents an unattainable concept-limit, but one that is necessary to legitimise the political process. From this perspective, it is possible to reimagine public debate: it is necessary to overcome its contemporary sterility, caused by imagining democracy as a marketplace of ideas, where there is no interchange but only competition between different positions and where the determining factor is force (sublimated in the number of votes). The paper attempts to offer some alternative ways of imagining democracy as a continuous process that respects pluralism and makes public debate constructive.

Author Biography

  • Mosè Paride Alessandro Ruggero Cometta, Accademia di Architettura de Mendrisio

    Doctor en Geografía por la Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement de la Université de Lausanne, Suiza, y licenciado en Filosofía por la Universitat de Barcelona, Catalunya. Es actualmente post-doc en la Accademia di Architettura de Mendrisio, Suiza, donde trabaja sobre estudios urbanos, urbanización planetaria y capitalismo digital. Sus principales intereses de investigación son las dinámicas de construcción de la identidad, las luchas por la hegemonía cultural y la filosofía política y territorial. Fue investigador visitante en la Università degli Studi di Torino. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8700-2030. Contacto: mose.cometta@usi.ch

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2022-05-15

How to Cite

Conflict and consensus: how to imagine democracy. Revista de Ciências do Estado, Belo Horizonte, v. 7, n. 1, p. 1–16, 2022. DOI: 10.35699/2525-8036.2022.38182. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revice/article/view/e38182. Acesso em: 18 dec. 2024.

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