Chantal mouffe biography of albert

Belgian post-Marxist political theorist (born 1943)

Chantal Mouffe (French:[muf]; born 17 June 1943)^[1] is a Belgian political theorist, formerly teaching at University of Westminster.^[2] She is best known for her and Ernesto Laclau's contribution to the development of the so-called Essex School of discourse analysis.^[3][4] She is a strong critic of deliberative democracy and advocates a conflict-oriented model of radical democracy.

Education

Chantal Mouffe studied at the Universities of Leuven, Paris and Essex and has worked in many universities throughout the world (in Europe, North America and Latin America). She has also held visiting positions at Harvard, Cornell, Princeton and the CNRS (Paris).

During 1989–1995, she served as Programme Director at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. She currently holds a professorship at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of