THE END OF THE POLITICAL SUBJECT: WARS WITHOUT REVOLUTIONS.
The article reflects on Alain Badiou's philosophy of the subject as a powerful resource in rethinking the link between philosophy and politics. It argues that there is a significant gap between power and governance as "management" without the true subject of politics as such. Modern politics must, t...
| Publicado en: | Phainomena Vol. 33; no. 128/129; pp. 301 - 325 |
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Phenomenological Society of Ljubljana
Jun2024
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| Sumario: | The article reflects on Alain Badiou's philosophy of the subject as a powerful resource in rethinking the link between philosophy and politics. It argues that there is a significant gap between power and governance as "management" without the true subject of politics as such. Modern politics must, therefore, constantly constitute the reasons for the existence of this subject, although it, like society and state, already disappeared with the advent of the post-imperial sovereignty or appears as a relic of the historical deterioration of the meaning of democracy. One of the main goals of the present paper is to inquire whether Badiou's manifestos of thinking politics apart from the structural normatives actually mean that there are still potentials for the advent of "the revolutionary event" or do we today live in a world of "wars without revolutions"; the latter would suggest that politics has been left without a subject, and society without a substance, which is why the logic of absolute control is at work as the total mobilization of transcendent and immanent power. Članek razpravlja o filozofiji subjekta pri Alainu Badiouju kot vplivnemu viru za razmislek o povezavi med filozofijo in politiko. Trdi, da obstaja pomenljiva razlika med oblastjo in upravljanjem kot »menedžmentom« brez pravega subjekta politike kot takega. Moderna politika mora potemtakem nenehno konstituirati razloge za eksistenco takšnega subjekta, čeprav je, tako kot družba in država, že izginil s prihodom post-imperialne suverenosti oziroma se pojavlja kot preostanek historičnega razkroja pomena demokracije. Eden izmed poglavitnih ciljev pričujoče razprave je raziskava glede vprašanja, ali Badioujevi manifesti mišljenja politike onstran strukturnih normativov dejansko pomenijo, da še obstajajo potenciali za prihod »revolucionarnega dogodka« ali pa danes živimo v svetu »vojn brez revolucij«; slednje bi namreč lahko naznanjalo, da je politika ostala brez subjekta in družba brez substance, zaradi česar se udejanja logika absolutnega nadzora kot totalne mobilizacije transcendentne in imanentne moči. |
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