para-politics

is one of the three forms of political philosophy. It attempts the impossible of integrating the anarchy of democracy into the constitutional order.

One of the three kinds of political philosophy, para-politics is the result of Aristotle's attempt to square the circle by integrating the egalitarian anarchy of the dèmos into the constitutional order of the police. This mimetic transformation of the dèmos into one of the parties of political litigation, as natural as it may seem to modern theories of sovereignty and the para-political tradition of social contract theory, masks the fact that the equality of the dèmos can never be adequately accounted for within the police order.' (Rancière 2000: 88). Rancière, Jacques. 2000. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Continuum: New York

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para politics