NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS,POPULISM AND THE POLITICS OF THE LIFEWORLD |
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Authors: | Henry Krips |
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Abstract: | Since the 1960s, New Social Movements (NSMs) have been prominent as new actors on the political scene. But, by comparison with other radical political agents, they have made a relatively poor showing in mainstream political theory. Habermas, for example, criticizes NSMs, including second-wave feminism, for merely masquerading as new forms of radical political agency. By introducing some ideas from Laclau, I show how to counter Habermas's criticism. I then rethink NSMs as a new post-liberal form of democratic-emancipatory political agency, which by contrast with the politics of the public sphere that Habermas champions, is anchored in the less organized reaches of the lifeworld. |
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Keywords: | Feminism Habermas Laclau New Social Movements populism |
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