Publication: Del agonismo democrático a una política de la a-juridicidad. El espacio político-jurídico a la prueba de la transformación radical
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2018-01
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto de Derechos Humanos Bartolomé de las Casas; Dykinson
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Basándose en la distinción paradigmática entre una forma absoluta y una forma
radical de la contingencia política, este trabajo trata de mostrar su importancia
estructural, así como las preocupantes consecuencias de su olvido, especialmente
en la búsqueda de un modelo que sea capaz de poner de relieve las transgresiones
de los sistemas político-jurídicos en una perspectiva basada en la democracia.
Una justificación de un modelo de este tipo es importante sobre todo en el marco
de la política radical, que ha llamado la atención sobre el carácter decisivo del pluralismo
y del conflicto como rasgos fundamentales para entender la democracia
fundada en la apertura y en la posibilidad de transformación.
Ajustándose a este supuesto básico, a través de un preciso análisis comparativo
con la destacada teoría política de Chantal Mouffe, sostendré que una forma
apropiada de contingencia democrática radical –así como de conflicto y de desafío–
no puede entenderse en su concepción agonística de la política basada en la
apropiación del modelo absolutista de antagonismo de Carl Schmitt, sino más
bien en la configuración de una transgresión político-jurídica que mira más de
cerca a formas alternativas que pueden expresar articulaciones extremadamente
reforzadas de conflicto e impulsos transformativos sin tener que decaer en
configuraciones exorbitantes. Como mostraré en la última parte del trabajo, un buen candidato a este fin puede encontrarse en la explicación de la transformación
político-jurídica como una política de la a-juridicidad de Hans Lindahl.
Holding onto a paradigmatic distinction between a radical and an absolute form of political contingency, this paper seeks to show its structural relevance and the unsettling consequences of its elision especially when searching for an adequate model for seizing the transgression of politico-legal orders in a democracy-based perspective. An account of such a model becomes especially important in the area of radical politics which has drawn attention to the crucial nature of pluralism and conflict as an essential feature for understanding democracy as based on openness and transformability. In line with this basic assumption, and by way of an analysis that deploys a thorough confrontation with Chantal Mouffe’s influential political theory, I will argue that an apt form of radical democratic contingency, conflict and challenge cannot be found in her agonistic design of politics based on the appropriation of Carl Schmitt’s absolutistic model of antagonism, but rather in a configuration of politico-legal transgression which looks much closer at alternative forms which can thoroughly express extremely enhanced articulations of conflict and transformative impulses without having to decay into exorbitant figurations. As I will show in the last section of the paper a good candidate for such a scope can be traced in Hans Lindahl’s account of politicolegal transformation as a politics of a-legality.
Holding onto a paradigmatic distinction between a radical and an absolute form of political contingency, this paper seeks to show its structural relevance and the unsettling consequences of its elision especially when searching for an adequate model for seizing the transgression of politico-legal orders in a democracy-based perspective. An account of such a model becomes especially important in the area of radical politics which has drawn attention to the crucial nature of pluralism and conflict as an essential feature for understanding democracy as based on openness and transformability. In line with this basic assumption, and by way of an analysis that deploys a thorough confrontation with Chantal Mouffe’s influential political theory, I will argue that an apt form of radical democratic contingency, conflict and challenge cannot be found in her agonistic design of politics based on the appropriation of Carl Schmitt’s absolutistic model of antagonism, but rather in a configuration of politico-legal transgression which looks much closer at alternative forms which can thoroughly express extremely enhanced articulations of conflict and transformative impulses without having to decay into exorbitant figurations. As I will show in the last section of the paper a good candidate for such a scope can be traced in Hans Lindahl’s account of politicolegal transformation as a politics of a-legality.
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Conflicto democrático, Confines político-jurídicos, Contingencia, Agonismo/antagonismo, A-juridicidad, Democratic conflict, Politico-legal boundaries, Contingency, Agonism/antagonism, A-legality
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Derechos y Libertades: revista de filosofía del derecho y derechos humanos, enero 2018, n. 38, pp.53-72