The Zoon Politikin, the Public Space and the Proximity of the Word. On the Logocentrism of Political Philosophy

Authors

  • Juan José Martínez Olguín Universidad de Buenos Aires / Universidad de París VIII (Argentina / Francia)

Keywords:

logocentrism, political philosophy, public space, he zoon politikon, the zoon politikon

Abstract

Two notions show the logocentrism on which the thinking of political philosophy is based: the notion of zoon politikon and the notion of public space. While the first poses that man’s humanity is fully presented in the logos, the second one states that this full humanity is given to see in public space and the proximity of speech that this space guarantees. In other words: the logocentrism of political philosophy affirms the following: human’s condition presents itself when man speaks, and it is fully presented when man speaks in public space. The primordial unity between body and word remains, thus, as the most important condition of politics. This hypothesis, which describes the close relationship between logocentrism and political philosophy, has an origin: Aristotle’s Politics. From this text, which Rancière refers to in La Mésentente, we will try to develop in the following pages how these notions and this logocentrism operate in Aristotle, Rousseau, Arendt and Rancière.

Author Biography

Juan José Martínez Olguín, Universidad de Buenos Aires / Universidad de París VIII (Argentina / Francia)

Licenciado en Sociología por la Universidad de Buenos
Aires, Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Paris VIII y Doctor en Cs. Sociales por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Es Profesor en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, investigador del Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (de la Facultad de Cs. Sociales de la UBA) y "Jeune chercheur" del Laboratoire d'études et de recherches sur les logiques contemporaines de la philosophie (perteneciente al Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Paris VIII). Su campo de investigación es la filosofía política, la teoría política y la teoría social. Posee diversas publicaciones en el país y en el extranjero

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26-04-2019

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Martínez Olguín, Juan José. 2019. “The Zoon Politikin, the Public Space and the Proximity of the Word. On the Logocentrism of Political Philosophy”. Philosophia 78 (1):33-59. https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/philosophia/article/view/1835.

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Vol. 78 No. 1 (2018)

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