PHILOSOPHER

Chantal Mouffe

1943 - Today

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Chantal Mouffe (French: [muf]; born 17 June 1943) is a Belgian political theorist, formerly teaching at University of Westminster. She is best known for her and Ernesto Laclau's contribution to the development of the so-called Essex School of discourse analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chantal Mouffe has received more than 430,249 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Chantal Mouffe is the 402nd most popular philosopher (up from 422nd in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 142nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Chantal Mouffe ranks 402 out of 1,267Before her are Étienne Cabet, Boetius of Dacia, Ahmad Sirhindi, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Archelaus, and Timon of Phlius. After her are Leszek Kołakowski, Christian Thomasius, Eubulides, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Brunetto Latini, and Peter Sloterdijk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Chantal Mouffe ranks 81Before her are Yohji Yamamoto, David Soul, Arthur Ashe, Roy Andersson, Joni Mitchell, and Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. After her are Sam Shepard, John Denver, Piet Keizer, Alain de Benoist, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and Jean-Louis Tauran.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Chantal Mouffe ranks 127 out of 1,190Before her are Paul Deschanel (1855), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), Princess Louise of Belgium (1858), Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787), Ambiorix (-100), and Jacob Le Maire (1585). After her are Marguerite Porete (1250), Siger of Brabant (1240), Louis, Prince Napoléon (1914), Louis II, Count of Flanders (1330), Princess Clémentine of Belgium (1872), and David Teniers the Younger (1610).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Belgium

Among philosophers born in Belgium, Chantal Mouffe ranks 2Before her are Justus Lipsius (1547). After her are Siger of Brabant (1240), Luce Irigaray (1930), Arnold Geulincx (1624), Henry of Ghent (1217), Franciscus Gomarus (1563), Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813), Paul de Man (1919), Alice von Hildebrand (1923), and Michel Weber (1963).