Coda

Strathausen, Carsten

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“…The recent 'ontological turn' in political and social thought (White, 2000;Strathausen, 2009;Paipais, 2016) has taken several different directions. Today we are confronted with a multifaceted set of reflections on the nature of social being that includes ontologies of 'rhetoricity' (Laclau, 2014) and of 'antagonism' (Marchart, 2017), of 'lack' (Žižek 1999(Žižek , Stavrakakis, 2007, of 'the void' (Badiou, 2007;Prozorov, 2014), or, alternatively, of 'becoming' (Connolly, 2011), of 'abundance' (Thomassen and Tonder, 2005), of 'the multitude' (Negri, 2002), of 'com-pearance' (Nancy, 2000), of 'potentiality' (Agamben, 1999) or of historical 'actuality' (Vattimo, 2011).…”

Section: 'What's Going On With Being?': Ontology As Critiquementioning

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Democracy, critique and the ontological turn

Mihai

McNay

Marchart

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Hardt and Negri (2001, p. 354) once remarked that 'political philosophy forces us to enter the terrain of ontology'. At a time when democracy's very future seems to be at stake, this statement assumes a renewed urgency. For, if the democratic project is once more under existential threat, rethinking the foundations of political thought and action is perhaps no longer the exclusive preoccupation of radical political thinkers but becomes the central task of contemporary democratic theory more broadly.Political ontologists have persuasively argued that our fundamental assumptions about the meaning and nature of our being in the world, about politics as a collective activity, and about the purpose of political philosophy are deeply interwoven; thinking and acting politically, as Arendt taught us, are inseparable. Philosophy is not simply an external discourse of knowledge that produces a scientific or 'objective' account of political life, separate from the actual practices, habits and affective commitments of individual or collective agents; nor can political life simply be reduced to procedures of validation based on intersubjective rules of communication.Yet, even if the so-called 'ontological turn' in political theory has rendered the liberal search for ontological neutrality or the Habermasian call for communicative 1 This Critical Exchange is the result of two workshops held at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St. Andrews in November 2016. We thank the commentators at these events -Nathan Coombs, Patrick Hayden, Tony Lang and Nick Rengger -for their helpful feedback on the presentations. For institutional support, we owe gratitude to our home universities and Edinburgh University Press. Finally, we are grateful to Andrew Schaap for inviting us to edit the papers for this journal. The five contributions included in this exchange draw on a variety of ontological approaches to the political, reflecting a broad range of concerns, both friendly and critical, to the much-analysed 'ontological turn' in political theory. In what follows, we shall draw out two themes that all contributions speak to, and suggest areas where a common ground is emerging, as well as domains where instructive divergences remain.The first theme concerns the translatability of fundamental ontology to the realm of politics. How straightforward or uninterrupted, in other words, is the transition from ontology to the political? The strong case for an ontology of the political is put forward in Oliver Marchart's contribution as part of his wider claim about the political nature of (social) being. Building on the Heideggerian distinction between the ontological and the ontic, Marchart argues that the added value of political ontology rests on the recognition that social order (or the social) is traversed by antagonism and that the different ontic ontologies of conflict, power, exclusion, subordination as well as their opposite ontologies of peace, harmony, association and pluralisation, are all expressions of the political, i.e...

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Section: 'What's Going On With Being?': Ontology As Critiquementioning

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Democracy, critique and the ontological turn

Mihai

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Marchart

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“…64 Menos aún nuestra investigación podría lidiar con la pregunta desencaminada respecto de una "ontología de izquierda" que ha alcanzado alguna repercusión en la filosofía política contemporánea. 65 Para utilizar una distinción propuesta por Rodney Needham, se trata de un clasificador "politético" y no "monotético", es decir, que admite e incluso requiere, de acuerdo a cada caso y situación, de la interconexión entre aspectos y características de diversa naturaleza, factores que componen una constelación eficaz para ubicar las acciones y creencias de los actores históricos. Usualmente los textos nos han revelado preferencias monotéticas: algunos enfatizan en lo ideológico, otros en lo social, otros en los métodos de acción, otros en lo identitario, y otros, finalmente, en lo organizativo.…”

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Izquierda peronista: una categoría útil para el análisis histórico / Peronist Left: A Useful Category for Historical Analysis

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ResumenEl presente trabajo examina la utilidad de la categoría analítica "izquierda peronista" para caracterizar las tendencias anticapitalistas y socialistas del peronismo surgidas en la Argentina de los años 1960 y 1970. Estudia los usos de la categoría en las investigaciones sobre el tema, en las que coexiste con nociones alternativas tales como "peronismo revolucionario". Aunque el peronismo en general se ha (auto)percibido como un movimiento ajeno a las clasificaciones modernas del espectro político en términos de izquierda-derecha, el estudio de los usos de esas clasificaciones, en ocasiones empleadas por los propios actores, sugiere la relevancia analítica del término "izquierda peronista" en clave politética. Palabras clavePeronismo, izquierda peronista, historiografía, clasificación politética. AbstractThis article examines the usefulness of the analytical category "Peronist left" to characterize the anti-capitalist and socialist tendencies of Peronism that emerged in Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s. It discusses the uses of the category in different works of research, where is coincidental with alternative notions such as "revolutionary Peronism". Although Peronism in general has been (self)perceived as a movement strange to modern classifications of the political spectrum in terms of left and right, the study of the uses of these classifications, sometimes employed by the actors themselves, suggests the analytical relevance of the term "Peronist left" in polythetic inquiry.

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Coda

Abstract: In lieu of a conclusion, the “Coda” rearticulates the central arguments of the book in the broader context of today’s post-Humanities and outlines what I consider the most promising avenues for further research in bio-aesthetics.

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Democracy, critique and the ontological turn

Izquierda peronista: una categoría útil para el análisis histórico / Peronist Left: A Useful Category for Historical Analysis

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