Beyond deliberation? onsiderations about the normativity of the post-structuralist theory of radical democracy

• Autor(a) principal: Mendonça, Daniel de
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/8234
• topic: Deliberative democracy; Post-structuralism; Theory of speech; Normativity; Democracia deliberativa; Pós-Estruturalismo; Teoria do discurso; Normatividade

The present article has the objective of presenting and discussing – in the sphere of post-structuralist theories of radical democracy, mainly those identified through the “Theory of speech of the Essex School” – the recent effort in order to reduce what the authors themselves admit to be a normative deficit in relation to their contemporary discussions about democracy. More concretely, this work focuses on two political-normative models that have arisen from this theoretical tradition, especially the works of Chantal Mouffe and Aletta Norval. The aim is to point out the eventual advances obtained through post-structuralism, an alternative theoretical model to the deliberative focus on the contemporary democratic debate.