Abstract

MARTINEZ OLGUIN, Juan José. Writing and the Horizons of Politics. On Literary Communism in Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Debate. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2020, n.59, pp.24-44. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n59a02.

The purpose of this article is to analyse the relationship between writing and the horizons of politics. To this aim, the author carries out a critical reading and interpretation of the debate that took place in the 1980s between Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy, in the light of the contributions of the Lefortian tradition of political philosophy, and, particularly, from the last contributions of the Argentine’s author Martín Plot. The main hypothesis of this text is that writing belongs to the aesthetic horizon of politics and configures-within the framework of this horizon- an unprecedented form of human coexistence, whose theoretical reflection arises as a reaction to totalitarianism and European democracies. Accordingly, in Nancy’s own terms, it is possible to think under the formula of literary communism.

Keywords : Political Theory; Aesthetics; Writing; Literary Communism; Blanchot, Maurice; Nancy, Jean-Luc.

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