DEL AGONISMO DEMOCRÁTICO A UNA POLÍTICA DE LA A-JURIDICIDAD. EL ESPACIO POLÍTICO-JURÍDICO A LA PRUEBA DE LA TRANSFORMACIÓN RADICAL.

Holding onto a paradigmatic distinction between a radical and an absolute form of political contingency, this paper seeks to show its structural relevance and the unsettling consequences of its elision especially when searching for an adequate model for seizing the transgression of politico-legal orders in a democracy-based perspective. An account of such a model becomes especially important in the area of radical politics which has drawn attention to the crucial nature of pluralism and conflict as an essential feature for understanding democracy as based on openness and transformability. In line with this basic assumption, and by way of an analysis that deploys a thorough confrontation with Chantal Mouffe's influential political theory, I will argue that an apt form of radical democratic contingency, conflict and challenge cannot be found in her agonistic design of politics based on the appropriation of Carl Schmitt's absolutistic model of antagonism, but rather in a configuration of politico-legal transgression which looks much closer at alternative forms which can thoroughly express extremely enhanced articulations of conflict and transformative impulses without having to decay into exorbitant figurations. As I will show in the last section of the paper a good candidate for such a scope can be traced in Hans Lindahl's account of politicolegal transformation as a politics of a-legality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]