RANCIÈRE AND THE DAMAGE IN POLITICS

the reconfiguration of the people’s space and equality for the voiceless

Abstract

This work is part of a research initiated by PIBIC, in the area of Political Philosophy, a research that has as object some theses of the contemporary French author Jacques Rancière. From the author we take his thesis that, in the position of spectator, we act mainly as spectators of the world. This first part deals with the formation of the community in the old period formulated in the work The misunderstanding, and we will see how the people [demos] recover recognition of their role within the community. In the second part, we take up the role of democracy and the concept of political community as a group of individuals governed by a power, a minority of oligarchs and some implications of representative democracy in the contemporary social sphere. In the third, using the text The hatred of democracy, we will follow how the political community goes through oscillations, with the transition to democracy as a driving force.