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DISCOURSE AND METAPOLITICS José A. Bragança de Miranda
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The essay’s main effort is putting in doubt ethics inside the general framework of the inscription of discourse on the current experience. Two kinds of modalities of inscription are analysed: 1) the function of language on the constitution of experience; 2) the orientation-inflexion of experience by concrete figures of discourse. The major importance of the language is explained by historical reasons, mainly the rise of modernity. Since the entire process is a strategic intervention over the totality of the experience, its nature is primordialy political. Therefore the author defends the revitalisation of metapolitics, a category originally derived from natural right, as a way to criticise the modem trend of transformation of experience into discursive phenomena. The ethics is a first rank example of this kind of phenomenon. |
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Ethics and communication July 1992