Political conflict in our society is inevitable and the results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?<br>In <i>Agonistics</i> Mouffe develops her philosophy taking particular interest in international relations strategies for radical politics and the politics of artistic practices. In a series of coruscating essays she engages with cosmopolitanism post-operaism and theories of multiple modernities to argue in favor of a multipolar world with a real cultural and political pluralism.