Utemeljujući post-fundacionalizam: Politička ontologija
Founding Post-Foundationalism: A Political Ontology

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author considers the concept of the political from the perspective of what he calls post-foundational ontology. Traditional political philosophy dealt with the problem of politics and thus the good order, excluding at the same time contestation, conflict and, consequently, concept of the political. Contrary to traditional conceptions of politics, contemporary political theory introduces concept of the political as an instance confronted to politics as power of decision-making and regulation of social relations. The political, according to contemporary philosophers of politics, represents action, confrontation, thinking, criticizing, and deliberation about political decisions. According to the author, this confrontation between the political and politics is derived from Heidegger’s ontological difference between Being and being and thus positions itself as a regional philosophy or one of the realms of philosophy. Thus, the difference between the political and politics is being subordinated to a higher ontico-ontological reality. The author, following Ernesto Laclau’s political theory, identifies that the political is not a completed set of decisions or a project, but a constant uncompletedness which operates between grounding and abyss. Therefore, the author indicates that the political and ontological are inseparable and suggests, following William Conolly, the term ontopolitical. This way, giving the priority to either politics or the political would be dismissed, and what the author calls post-foundational political thought would be introduced.

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