The Ancient Greek notion of agonism, meaning struggle, has been
revived in radical legal and political theory to rethematize class
conflict and to conceptualize the conditions of possibility of
freedom and social transformation in contemporary society.
Insisting that what is ultimately at stake in politics are the
terms in which social conflict is represented, agonists highlight
the importance of the strategic, affective and aesthetic aspects of
politics for democratic praxis. This volume examines the
implications of this critical perspective for understanding law and
considers how law serves either to sustain or curtail the
democratic agon. While sharing a critical perspective on the
deliberative turn in legal and political theory and its tendency to
depoliticize social conflict, the various contributors to this
volume diverge in arguing variously for pragmatic, expressivist or
strategic conceptions of agonism. In doing so they question the
glib assumptions that often underlie a sometimes too easy
celebration of conflict as an antidote to de-politicizing
consensus. This thought provoking volume will be of interest to
students and researchers working in legal and political theory and
philosophy.
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