The Challenge of Broadening the Ontological-Political: From the Paradogma of a Good Life Towards the Bio-Paradigm of Good Lives

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n53.10

Carlos Andrés Duque Acosta
Unicatólica, Colombia

Abstract:

This article engages in a discussion with Emmanuel Biset’s writing What is a Political Ontology? (2020). The limits of his proposal of a deconstructionist political ontology are displayed establishing a contrast from the thesis of the ontological-political broadening represented by projects/praxis of living good lives. We intend to show, from a decolonial approach, some inconsistencies or relapses in metaphysics stemming from Biset’s proposal, which hinder the assumption of the full development of transforming possibilities of a political ontology, felt-thought from a specific locus of enunciation: the Latin American/Abya Yala territorial context.

Keywords: ontological turn, political ontology, deconstruction, good life, decoloniality, transmodernity.