@article{Efthimiou_2019, title={The Concept of Political Difference in Oliver Marchart and its Relationship with the Heideggerian Concept of Ontological Difference}, volume={4}, url={https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/18863}, DOI={10.12681/cjp.18863}, abstractNote={<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)">The concept of <em>political difference</em> concerns the distinction between <em>politics</em> and the <em>political</em>. The <em>political</em> refers to the ontological making possible of the different domains of society, including the domain of <em>politics</em> in the narrow sense. <em>Political difference</em> was introduced as a reaction to the theoretical controversy between <em>foundationalism</em> and <em>anti-foundationalism. </em>This reaction took the form of <em>post-foundationalism</em>. According to Marchart, <em>post-foundationalism</em> does not entirely deny the possibility of <em>grounding</em>. It denies only the possibility of an ultimate transcendent foundation insofar as this ontological impossibility makes possible the historical and contingent <em>grounds</em> in plural.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)">The Heideggerian concept of <em>ontological difference</em> also undermines the possibility of an ultimate <em>ontical ground</em> which establishes the presence of all the other beings. If one wants to think beyond the concept of ground, one should obtain a clear understanding of <em>Being</em> as <em>Being, </em>namely one should grasp the <em>Being</em> in its difference from beings. All the same, Heidegger tends to replace the ontical grounds of metaphysics with <em>Being</em> itself as a new kind of ultimate ontological foundation.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)">On the other hand, one can detect in many points of Heideggerian argumentation traces of a second alternative understanding of ontological difference which does not belong in Heidegger’s intentions and which undermines the <em>primordiality</em> of Being. This alternative understanding establishes a reciprocity between Being and beings. In our view, political difference not only is based in this second way of understanding but, at the same time, develops more decisively the mutual interdependence between Being and beings.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)">In political difference the <em>grounding</em> part, namely the political, possesses both a grounding character and a derivative one. Politics and political both grounds and dislocate each other in an incessant and oscillating, historical procedure which undermines any form of completion of the social.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Conatus - Journal of Philosophy}, author={Efthimiou, Christoforos}, year={2019}, month={Oct.}, pages={61–78} }