%0 Journal Article
%T Disagreeing before acting: The paradoxes of critique and politics from Adorno to Ranci¨¨re
%A Jo£¿o Pedro Cachopo
%J Theoria and Praxis : International Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought
%D 2013
%I York University
%X This article develops the hypothesis that the paradoxical character of critique (the fact that it questions its own grounds) is not an obstacle to, but a condition of, its theoretical and practical effectiveness. In order to clarify and expand this hypothesis with regard to its political implications I examine Ranci¨¨re¡¯s distinction between ¡°politics¡± and ¡°police,¡± his appraisal of ¡°disagreement¡± (in contrast to Lyotard¡¯s ¡°diff¨¦rend¡±), along with his thesis that the rationality of ¡°disagreement¡± sheds light on the paradox of politics (which consists, to paraphrase Ranci¨¨re, in the very absence of any ground for the power of ruling). This will help counter the well-known criticism raised by Habermas against Adorno according to which a non-normative understanding of critique entails a ¡°performative contradiction.¡± Against this assumption, I argue that to foster ¡°disagreement¡± over what constitutes politics, in order to stimulate new ways of imagining what might be done ¨C rather than to promote ¡°consensus¡± on what should be done ¨C is hardly an inappropriate goal for a politically focused philosophical critique.
%K Political
%K Adorno
%K Ranci¨¨re
%K Deleuze
%K Critical
%K Disagreement
%U http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/theoriandpraxis/article/viewFile/36825/33465