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Should we take sides?: Girard, Mouffe, et al on graceful divisiveness

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Haw C. A.
Studia z Teorii Wychowania
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2023
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vol. XIV(2 (43))
97-129
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This paper interprets the rhetoric and social phenomena of “taking sides” and “scapegoating” amidst radical societal division. Exploring the social mechanics of unity and division, I visit the work of René Girard and Chantal Mouffe, who offer a lucid ambivalence regarding the dilemma that neutrality is a practical impossibility. And in turning to implications of their shared paradox-that to be genuinely “peaceful” may require graceful divisiveness-I consider cases and theory on nonviolently fomenting conflict. In contrast with certain liberal social theories of transcending division, this paper treats the desire for politics beyond hegemony-or politics without a scapegoat-as something of an eschatological ideal, toward which Girard, Mouffe, and others offer a tension-filled, crypto-Augustinian, agonistic pluralism.
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