No. 7 (2011): Thinking the Community
Articles

The common deception

Andrea Potestà
Universidad de Estrasburgo

Published 2021-07-13

Keywords

  • Friedrich Nietzsche,
  • Jean-Luc Nancy,
  • Jacques Derrida,
  • community,
  • deception,
  • deconstruction
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How to Cite

Potestà, Andrea. 2021. “The Common Deception”. Pléyade, no. 7 (July):57-66. http://revistapleyade.cl/index.php/OJS/article/view/241.

Abstract

The article tries to describe the fundamental gesture of contemporary French debates around community with the help of an analysis of emotive disposition of «deception». Deception, considered ad a non-negative disposition in front of the end of political ideals, would represent a central climax of deconstructive task concerning political philosophy: it forces to abandon the possibility of «deduce» and «solve» the political question of being-in-common through a rational basis, and to the impossibility of theoretical recourse able to «axiomatise» the notion of community. That gesture, essentially close to a Nietzschean nihilistic posture, demands to risk, or philosophically assume the challenge, of having into the thinking of the political a catastrophic principle of his concept.