The article undertakes a critical analysis of selected political and philosophical motifs present in Mouffe’s thought. The proposed evaluation reveals the immanent tensions, deficiencies and contradictions of this conception. How does Mouffe understand populism?; what elements of the populist articulation of demands determine its “leftist” character?; how much “populist syndrome” is there in it?; how to “sublimate” the power of affect so that it interacts with the agonistic form of the argument and does not intensify antagonistic forms?; what is the relationship of left populism to political myths, or, more broadly, to the imaginarium of the political sphere?; what might the articulation of the “demands” of non-human entities look like within a discursive-hegemonic configuration?
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