Escribir lo político, interrogar el acontecimiento

Aportes desde la fenomenología política

Abstract

This work’s vocation is to recover political phenomenology’s legacy, with the goal of highli­ghting one of the most fecund milieus in the writing of the political and its reversal, the interrogation of the events and historical experiences (the visibles, as we will elaborate in the text) in their permanent demand for theoretical articulation (the invisible, as we will also explain). Having as our starting point Merleau-Ponty’s late thought, Lefort’s re-ela­boration of the latter, and the studies already produced by this article’s authors, what we here look for is to restart our own theoretical gesture at its most elementary instance and, from there, ask ourselves about the intertwining between theory and practice, between thinking and political experiences, between the writing of the political and the interroga­tion of events in order to, in that way, offer an account of the style of theoretical practice that the Regimes of Politics research group—a part of the School IDAES for many years already—seeks to develop. We hope this exercise will identify, even beyond the limits of the phenomenology that inspires us, our own way of doing and writing, of putting forward and conducting research, on the question of the political.