No. 7 (2011): Thinking the Community
Articles

Being-with and democracy

Jean-Luc Nancy
Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg

Published 2021-07-13

Keywords

  • being-with,
  • democracy,
  • Martin Heidegger,
  • sense,
  • singularity

How to Cite

Nancy, Jean-Luc. 2021. “Being-With and Democracy”. Pléyade, no. 7 (July):11-31. http://revistapleyade.cl/index.php/OJS/article/view/238.

Abstract

The text proposes a conceptualization of the with, that escapes the mere contiguity and non-signification, ruling outthe relation that occurs in the with be secondary or simply that being there together of two essences previously defined, that already possess their own sense. Simply being together already creates sense.

This conceptualization of the with, ruled by multiplicity and the axe close-far, implies an ontology or existential topic and not just a topography, at the same time that radically changes the conception of power and democracy, driving to a new task that escapes to the traditional idea of people’s sovereignty and the administration of life in common. Democracy would be a regime of immanence of the sense.