Abstract

PEREYRA, Guillermo. Political community and popular revolt. Sig. Fil [online]. 2012, vol.14, n.27, pp.119-146. ISSN 1665-1324.

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the concept of popular revolt in order to clarify its heuristic value in relation to political community. The essay traces a theoretical trajectory of the idea of popular revolt in some texts of Arendt, Rancière, Blanchot, Nancy, Agamben and Esposito. I propose that popular revolt must be understood in the context of an ontology of the community. I conclude that popular revolt presumes the rejection of an order on inequality sustained by a disagreement and the requirement of not to lose the community understood as the very place of our existence.

Keywords : community; dead; popular revolt; life; violence.

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