Chantal Mouffe teaches Political Theory and directs the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Westminster in London. A post-Marxist philosopher, theorist of non-liberal and non-deliberative democracy, she is renowned on a global level for her works, the result of a long collaboration with Ernesto Laclau, aimed at rethinking the concept of the political and that of hegemony, through an original reinterpretation of the work of Antonio Gramsci.