Las voces del espacio público, una cuestión acerca de la democracia

• Diana González Fonseca ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
• Localización: IV Congreso de estética y política. Poéticas del desacuerdo para una democracia plural / coord. por Lorena Rodríguez Mattalía, Wenceslao García, 2019, ISBN 9788490488027, págs. 27-32
• Idioma: español
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  • In the emergency of thinking about public space and its relation to democracy, the following questions arise: how to overcome the limitations of individual identity and talk about a community? Is it necessary to evoke an unity in order to solve the ideal of equality? These are all difficulties inherent to the foundation of democracy and, consequently, to the possibilities that it enables in the public space. The consequences of one or another way of defining democracy affect the multivoiced body proposed by the American philosopher Fred Evans. This expression refers to the public as from heterogeneity, and introduces an aesthetic dimension to its political formula. Moreover, for the purpose of explaining the role of voices in the public space, I intend to mention democracy to come and the absolute hospitality by Jacques Derrida, on the one hand, and being singular plural by Jean-Luc Nancy, on the other. The democracy to come shows a perpetual tension between the similar and the other, which celebrates an ideal of democracy in eternal pursuit. On the other hand, being singular plural points at the necessity of the relationship with the other, of being-with which, saving the distance, reminds of Heidegger’s Mitsein. These notions suggest a necessary openness of the public space and, ultimately, assign a simultaneous value to all voices.