Twenty Theses on Politics

Foreword: The Liberation of Politics: Alterity, Solidarity, Liberation / Eduardo Mendieta vii Preliminary Words xv Introduction 1 Thesis 1. Corruption and the Political Field: The Public and the Private 3 Part One: The Prevailing Political Order Thesis 2. The Political Power of the Community as Potentia 13 Thesis 3. Institutional Power as Potestas 18 Thesis 4. Obediential Power 24 Thesis 5. The Fetishization of Power: Power as Domination 30 Thesis 6. Strategic Political Action 36 Thesis 7. The Need for Political Institutions: The Material Sphere (Ecological, Economic, Cultural): Fraternity 43 Thesis 8. Institutions in the Spheres of Democratic Legitimacy and Feasibility: Equality and Liberty: Governability 50 Thesis 9. Ethics and the Implicit Normative Principles of Politics: The Material Principle 56 Thesis 10. The Formal-Democratic and Feasibility Principles of Politics 62 Part Two: The Critical Transformation of the Political: Toward the New Political Order Thesis 11. The People: The Popular Sector and Populism 71 Thesis 12. Liberatory Power as Hyperpotentia and the State of Rebellion 78 Thesis 13. The Political Principles of Liberation: The Critical Material Principle 83 Thesis 14. The Critical-Democratic and Strategic Transformation Principles 88 Thesis 15. Liberation Praxis of Social and Political Movements 94 Thesis 16. Anti-Hegemonic Praxis and the Construction of a New Hegemony 103 Thesis 17. Transformation of Political Institutions: Reform, Transformation, Revolution: Political Postulates 108 Thesis 18. Transformation of Institutions in the Material Sphere: Perpetual Life and Solidarity 114 Thesis 19. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Democratic Legitimacy: Irruption of New Rights: Perpetual Peace and Alterity 122 Thesis 20. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Feasibility: The Dissolution of the State? Liberation 131 Notes 139 Bibliography 151 Index 155