Political Cynicism. A new discursive style in liberal democracies
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Liberalism, Agonism, Cynicism, Rawls, Mouffe, SloterdijkAbstract
A new properly cynical discursive style is spreading in current liberal democracies. This paper traces a genealogy of this political cynicism starting from the political liberalism of John Rawls and making a stopover in Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic theory of democracy, and tries to show that the overcoming of the political liberalism that the agonistic theory has been proposing for years seems to be finally carried out through cynicism, although with different results than expected: the expansion of cynicism in the public sphere must be understood as a degradation of public debate with disturbing political consequences.
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