Chantal Murphy

Chantal Mouffe (1943-), born in Charleroi, Belgium, is a political philosopher and a representative figure of post-Marxism. She has studied at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in France, the University of Essex in the UK, and the University of London in the UK. After graduation, she worked at the National University of Colombia, City University of London, University of London, Princeton University, Cornell University and other schools. She is best known for her book Hegemony and Socialist Strategies—Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, co-authored with Ernest Laclau, in which she first proposed post-Marxism. She edited and co-wrote "Gramsci and Marxist Theory" and published many articles on contemporary political thought, new social movements and feminist theory.