Abstract
This article aims to demonstrate that the dimension of the sacred is constitutive of politics. First, abandoning any substantive view of the sacred that confines it to the exclusive jurisdiction of religions is necessary, reaching a broad and non-essentialist conception based on developments from Durkheim to Bataille. In this way, the sacred can be considered the center and common foundation of all society, present both in its glorious manifestations and its excremental ones, which will be referred to as pure and impure heterogeneous elements, respectively. Furthermore, contrary to those who speak of the “sacralization of politics” —a formula that implies an external relationship between politics and sacredness and a rejection of their contamination— this article proposes to understand politics as the practice of sacralization —of people and processes, of events, objects, and places— which aims to construct objectivity, that is, to stabilize the principal meanings within a social set. ______________ Este artículo tiene como objetivo mostrar que la dimensión de lo sagrado es constitutiva de la política. En primer lugar, es preciso abandonar toda mirada sustantiva de lo sagrado que lo sitúe como jurisdicción exclusiva de las religiones, para así llegar a una concepción amplia y no esencialista a partir de los desarrollos desde Durkheim hasta Bataille. De este modo, lo sagrado puede pensarse simultáneamente como centro y fondo común de toda sociedad, presente tanto en sus manifestaciones gloriosas como en aquellas excrementales, que serán nombradas como heterogéneas puras e impuras respectivamente. A continuación, en contra de quienes hablan de la “sacralización de la política”, fórmula que supone una relación de exterioridad entre política y sacralidad y un rechazo de su contaminación, en este artículo se propone entender por política la práctica de sacralización —de personas y de procesos, de acontecimientos, objetos y lugares— que apunta a construir una objetividad, es decir, a estabilizar de los principales sentidos al interior de un conjunto social.
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