Nomadic Identities in Chantal Mouffe’s Theory of Politics

The aim of the article is to structure and contextualize the concept of nomadic identities formulated by Chantal Mouffe, a Belgian political theorist. The text consists of six parts preceded by an introduction. The first part concerns the vision of the social world in Chantal Mouffe’s theory of politics, the second one – the political context of the emergence of postconventional identities. The following parts aim to respectively – analyze Mouffe’s inspiration by the concepts of Schmitt, Derrida and Freud. The next part is a reconstruction of the theory of nomadic identities, analyzed in the context of Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic subject category. The final part of the text is anchored in the conclusion pointing the need for a dynamic approach to the category of political identity, linking it with the challenges of contemporary politics – including the challenge of populism.