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Ontological post-foundationalism and pragmatic postfoundationalism, or is it necessary to found the lack of foundation?

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Vol. 78 (2021)

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The article, having as reference Oliver Marchart’s book Post-foundational political thought. Political difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau, maintains that the ontic-ontological gap, which is ‒according to this author‒ the concept that gives unity to the so-called Heideggerian Left, has the strong consequence that politics is powerless to define the political, in addition to implying substantive conceptions ‒in the last term foundationalist‒ about history, the event, the decision, as the works of Nancy, Badiou and Laclau show, respectively. Next, he affirms that Marchart has a kind of blind spot that prevents him from seeing the non-reversibility of the ontic and the ontological and, by the implication, of politics and the political in Heidegger’s thought, holding up besides, their necessity. Finally, the article argues that thinking about the reversibility of politics and the political implies a pragmatic conception, which makes it unnecessary to “substantiate” the lack of foundation.

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Oliver Marchart, Heidegger, post-foundationalism, ontological difference, political difference, pragmatics

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José Fernando García, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano

jose.garcia@uacademia.cl

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García, J. F. (2021). Ontological post-foundationalism and pragmatic postfoundationalism, or is it necessary to found the lack of foundation?. Revista De Filosofía, 78, pp. 45–60. Retrieved from https://revistaderechoeconomico.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/65665
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