Scenes of action – criticism of the ending

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Abstract

This text investigates the procedurality inaugurated by the action of subjects, which can be seen especially in the developments devoted to the play Antigone, in the Phenomenology of the Spirit. The conflict of irreducible rights entails the creation of a theory of action – in which the ends do not justify the means. Such an ethical requirement, always a posteriori, is imposed when the non-control of the relational world is verified, implying, finally, an open historicity. However, if simply being in the world is an action since it produces effects, we ask ourselves about the conditions (background in a situation governing expectations, but also the history of thought) and potentialities (disruptive emergence that organizes expectations, in becoming) of action. Thanks to externalizations that generate a problematic field, in the form of language, work and desire, we contract alterity relations and arrive at ourselves, through the other, fatally different from the starting point. It is up to philosophy to judge the implications of each particular action.

Keywords

dialectics, tragedy, Hegelianism, theory of action, open historicity

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Author Biography

Gustavo Chataignier, Universidad Católica del Maule. Centro de investigación en Religión y Sociedad (CIRS)

Gustavo Chataignier is a lecturer and researcher at the Catholic University of Maule (Talca, Chile). He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Paris 8, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). His thesis, Temps historique et immanence, directed by Bensaïd and subsequently by Vermeren, was published by L’Harmattan (Paris, 2012). A member of the Laboratoire des Logiques Contemporaines de la Philosophie (Paris 8), of the Centre d’Études des Langues et Littératures Anciennes et Modernes (Rennes 2) and NuFFC (Núcleo de Filosofia Francesa Contemporánea, UFRJ), he was awarded the Chaire des Amériques in 2020, by the Institut des Amériques, at Rennes 2 University. He is also a member of CIRS (Centro de Investigación en Religión y Sociedad, UCM). With Hussak, he translated Malaise dans l’esthétique by Jacques Rancière into Portuguese (PUC-Rio and 34). His main interests are aesthetics, critical theory, dialectics and contemporary French philosophy.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1476

Published

2023-10-26

How to Cite

Chataignier, G. (2023). Scenes of action – criticism of the ending. Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason, 71, 21–41. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1476

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