La «véritable politique». Observations sur justice et politique

The focus of this article is on the foreclosure of justice from the constellation of modern political concepts, that is, the erosion operated by modernity of the conditions which would allow to pose the question of justice. The failure of all modern attempts to think the right of resistance shows the collapse of the idea of justice, now reduced to either a procedure or to the will of majority. From this point of view, justice is the simply the advantage of the stronger, as we can see in Thrasymachus' position already criticised by Plato. The very crisis we are facing today doesn’t involve only economics but also law and politics, and can be seen as the chance to re-open the question about justice. In order to do this, we need to go beyond the principle of majority. The true politics, an idea that traverses Kant and Walter Benjamin, moots the question of justice beyond the doxastic horizon and re-opens the Socratic conflict between truth and opinion. The core of the problem is the possibility of a real political change in this political form, the modern democracy, which represents itself as absolute and un-transcendable.