Penser Aujourd'hui Avec Patocka: La Vulnerabilite Collective Et La Solidarite Politique

Abstract

The political life of a dissident refers to combat and struggle but these notions are not enough to express the feeling of suffering and indignation (thumos) involved in dissent. The resistance of dissidents presupposes a certain type of vulnerability created by existential insecurity under authoritarian regimes. It has meaning only as a non-submission to power, as an activity. So what will be the political consequences if we think of vulnerability as the condition of possibility of political resistance? If vulnerability is part of the meaning and action of resistance how can we then reinterpret the political dimension of dissent today? The relationship between vulnerability and resistance is often interpreted in terms of opposition because, unlike collective resistance, vulnerability seems to require a certain form of protection and is defined by passivity. Following Patočka’s analysis of theory of the solidarity of the shaken which describes a resistance to a permanent state of war in the form of dehumanizing total mobilization, I aim to show the role of the recognition of vulnerability in the practices of political resistance and civil disobedience.

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