Política e sujeitos coletivos: entre consensos e desacordos

Abstract

The text aims to discuss two views on the concept of politics, seeking to map the contemporary debate about the epistemological dispute surrounding the emergence of the political as an act of specificity. By submitting this mapping, it discusses the element of antagonism as defining the concept of political and consequences of this approach for understanding the contemporary. From this discussion, it shows the importance of the concepts of power and politics in Michel Foucault as a basis for analytical antagonisms contemporaries in politics and the result of thinking about the political subject from a political ontology. Finally, it indicates the importance of this debate for the contemporary dialogue given the re-emergence of the concept of the political front the devaluation of politics in contemporary societies.