agonistics

The story explains agonistics as "You can compete, and you can win, but you can never win once-and-for-all".

What would the world be without the agonthe agonistics of one man against anotherto show everyone the order of precedence among men, just as no two other things on earth are alike?

Mouffe's Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically (2013) has been criticised by Timothy Laurie for its strong focus on State institutions, noting that Mouffe's "professed enthusiasm for (some) non-Western Islamist movements is solely conditional upon their assumption of State instruments".