Identidad, diferencia y ciudadanía: una aproximación desde Chantal Mouffe

Abstract

This article seeks to deal with the idea of identity in current democratic societies starting with the interpretation of Chantal Mouffe and her conceptions of citizenship, understood as a form of collective identity constructed for the means of identification of essential ethic-political values of liberal democracy, in other words, liberty and equality.  In this way, starting from the “paradox” that, according to the author, defines the current political system -a paradox that results from the tension between liberal logic and democratic logic-, it will be advocated the defence of a radical plural democracy in which, once we have recognized the inevitability of antagonism and conflict, the political activity would be orientated towards the creation of political identities that, under a common preoccupation and the same Word play, recognize the other as a legitimate adversary and with this a plurality of loyalties as much as a defense of the individual liberty.