La dimensione estetica della politica. Jacques Rancière la democrazia senza parte

Abstract

The starting point of the research is the assumption that actuality in not intelligible in a rational or moral perspective. The vanishing of every cognitive, moral or legal transcendence gives space to a reality that is complex and lacks systematic nature. Disarticulation and incoherence are the main character of an age in which individualism is maximally developed. The government of this differential complexity does not work through a transcendence reducing the whole to uniformity. Different and also antithetic paradigms coexist. The sovereign and state model has lost its centrality (both as political and economic subject), but it is not completely vanished. Forms of local governances, bottom-up insurgences, melt with demagogies, populisms and yearnings for providential forms of State. All this tells us about a time of ‘crisis’, that is a crack between an ancient which is not vanished yet, and a new which is not arrived yet. However in this research there is no space for a semantic of the crisis: the long fragmentation of philosophical and political traditional rationality – the one who searched for a synthesis of the multiplex – is analysed to understand what emerges from this new configuration. I have called ‘anarchic’ this configuration, but without referring to the dramaturgy of a lost arché: in this research ‘anarchy’ is the absence of any principle, an absence from which emerges what first was submissive and deactivated... [edited by Author]