Summary
Jacques Ranciere: Disagreement Politics and Philosophy
The book Disagreement is published by Jacques Ranciere in 1995, marking, in a certain way, the end of the Habermasian paradigm of politics as a search for consensus. To that extent, the term "politics of discord" appears as a kind of oxymoron that combines two seemingly incompatible concepts: if politics is always work based on the principle of gathering and organizing the human community, it would be agreement (harmony, consensus), and not disagreement, that would be the accompanying element of the concept of politics understood in this way. Disagreement, therefore, would be a force opposed to the political one. Ranciere, however, tries to show that it is possible to understand politics from a perspective that does not assume consent as a greatness, nor does it assume some kind of principle, some kind of beginning (arche) that would precede the political struggle itself, which means that at the base of politics there is a constant struggle of forces, an eternal game of opposing powers.
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