Defensa de la poli(é)tica

Abstract

The local and global standard ways of getting involved in politics have led to a growing and widespread sense of unease which has given rise to an unavoidable challenge to the current philosophical activity; Politics itself must be subjected to a critical revision. If it is admitted that the Political Philosophy can only be refounded starting from its own radical self-criticism, it is also necessary to take it out from the matrix on which the real present politics has been set up, a militaristic base founded on the uneven distinction between friend/enemy and some others. Furthermore, it entails to recognise the need for a conceptual rebuilding of the relationship between a political action and an ethical attitude, between a political position and a moral disposition in the world of life of the modernity. It is in this theoretical and programmatic context where the article informs about how it became advisable to introduce the category of «poli(e)thics» in the philosophical-political discourse some years ago, in order 10 highlight that strict and reconstructive task which involves not only a Critical Philosophy of Politics but also a Political Philosophy of Legitimacy made up of the ethical imperative of dissent and the poli(e)thical imperative of resistance to social evil and domination. Nevertheless, as it has recently come up some uses of the category of poli(e)thics which distort its meaning and its form, the article supports the original proposal of poli(e)thics although it previously gives arguments to dissociate itself from those distortions.