Post policy
Post-politics (also postal politics ) is a diagnostic term used in political philosophy that describes societies in which the existing basic political structure is seen as unchangeable and without alternatives and in which there is no fundamental political conflict . There is an overlap with what post-democracy means. While post-democracy is about the loss of participation , post-politics focuses on the absence of disputes ( waiver of discourse ).
Chantal Mouffe and Slavoj Žižek use the term referring to Jacques Rancière's criticism of consensus democracies . For Rancière, politics is necessarily conflict-ridden; he calls the conflict-free field of politics the police (a series of procedures with which power is organized, consensus is established, and places and roles within society are attributed ). Žižek understands post-politics to be the rejection of the political in favor of policy measures, endless negotiations and political management . Mouffe calls the politics of the third way , as it was advocated by the sociologists Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck as "prophets of a" politics without opponents "", post politics .
Both Mouffe and Žižek see the danger of post-politics in the fact that the repressed antagonism could recur as racist hatred and right-wing extremism , especially if right-wing extremism is the only discursive offer in a completely consensual society.
Web links
- Nils Markwardt in conversation with Chantal Mouffe : Consensus is the end of politics , Philosophy Magazin , 5/2015.
- Slavoj Žižek : Why do we all love to hate Haider? , Eurozine , October 3, 2000.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The presentation follows Oliver Marchart : The political difference. On the thinking of the political in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou, Laclau and Agamben . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2018, p. 178 ff.
- ↑ Quoted from Oliver Marchart : The political difference. On the thinking of the political in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou, Laclau and Agamben . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2018, p. 173.