ABSTRACT
ERNESTO LACLAU Discussion on the viability of democracy in what can be broadly conceived as a ‘postmodern’ age has mainly turned around two central issues: 1) does not the current dispersion and fragmentation of political actors conspire against the emergence of strong social identities which could operate as nodal points for the consolidation and expansion of democratic practices?; and 2) is not this very multiplicity the source of a particularism of social aims which could result in the dissolution of the wider emancipatory discourses considered as constitutive of the democratic imaginary?
