The Democracy as a paradigm of politics in Jacques Rancière

Abstract

The discussion regarding the concept of democracy, as a democratic structure, about its pros and cons or even its relation to the very concept of politics has never been an exclusivity of ancient, modern or contemporary thinkers. The very concept of democracy has undergone changes that will alter its perception over time. On this justification we seek, in the thought of Jacques Rancière, to perform a rereading of the concept and whether there is a way that it can, or not, be seen as a political paradigm. We seek, initially, to present a rescue to the idea of Greek democracy, in its original sense and as it was thought by Plato and Aristotle. In order to continue our rereading, we present the rancierian discussion, in which democracy is decontextualized in the contemporary environment, having been transformed into a concept that adorns the political discourses and a veil of maya, reality of contemporary political structures.