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La «véritable politique». Observations sur justice et politique
No full textThe focus of this article is on the foreclosure of justice from the constellation of modern political concepts, that is, the erosion operated by modernity of the conditions which would allow to pose the question of justice. The failure of all modern attempts to think the right of resistance shows the collapse of the idea of justice, now reduced to either a procedure or to the will of majority. From this point of view, justice is the simply the advantage of the stronger, as we can see in Thrasymachus' position already criticised by Plato.
The very crisis we are facing today doesn’t involve only economics but also law and politics, and can be seen as the chance to re-open the question about justice. In order to do this, we need to go beyond the principle of majority. The true politics, an idea that traverses Kant and Walter Benjamin, moots the question of justice beyond the doxastic horizon and re-opens the Socratic conflict between truth and opinion. The core of the problem is the possibility of a real political change in this political form, the modern democracy, which represents itself as absolute and un-transcendable
Another kind of Gewalt: Beyond Law. Re-Reading Walter Benjamin
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article revisits Walter Benjamin’s reflection on the concept of violence, attempting to rethink its
semantics in the tension between right and justice. After examining the continuum of juridical
violence in relation to the logic of the modern state, it attempts to delineate the possibility of
another type of violence: a violence that is not a means in order to attain an end, but which finds
in itself the criterion of its own justice. Research into this kind of violence has been a particularly
urgent and complex problem in modern politics which, together with the foreclosure of justice,
has rendered unthinkable qualitatively diff erent types of Gewalt, types that lie beyond the sterile
opposition between violence and non-violence. Rethinking the question of justice means that, in
a confl ict, however violent it might be, a non-teleological criterion is possible, starting with the
extent to which some part of the struggle can be defi ned as just
Accumulation and Time. Marx's Historiography from the Grundrisse to Capital
No full textThis article investigates the way in which Marx combines different historiographical
approaches in order to draft the possibility for both new forms of social relationship
and a new anthropology. The classic unilinear and historicist paradigm and its
idea of pre-modern, pre-capitalist and pre-political social forms does not help
in understanding the interaction of different temporalities and the combination
of formal and real subsumptions. The representation of ongoing accumulation
requires different temporalities, which conflict and intertwine with one another
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