Has J. Rancière’s concept of politics Marxist assumptions?
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines critically the claim of Jacques Rancière\nthat politics should be thought without reference to social spaces or to the\npower relationships which take place in themselves. This text seeks to\nshow that those descriptions and cartographies of social spaces work yet\nas hidden assumptions in the Rancièrian theory despite being refused by\nthe French philosopher himself as crucial rudiments of the reflection about\npolitics. In its first part, the paper approaches Rancière’s objections against\nthe theories which like Marxism derive the nature of political conflict of\nthe understanding of social conflicts. In the second part, it will show that,\nwithout referring to sociological descriptions of society like those that Marxism employs, the Rancièrian concept of politics would fall into internal\ncontradictions by fitting politics with emancipation together, as the formal\nfigure of actualization of equality is not enough to define the emancipatory\nnature of political irruption.
Author: Andrés Felipe Parra Ayala
Institution: University of Bonn
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2730511451