Of the Plurality as a Condition for the Advent of Politics and the Risk of Aestheticization of Difference

Abstract

Legal pluralism necessarily refers us to a discussion in which, by looking at politics as the space for the realization and manifestation of the law, it is necessary to establish the nature of the relationship between politics and pluralism. This is why is enlightening to look up towards Hannah Arendt thinking to understand how pluralism is the required condition for the construction of politics, which at the same time is the manifestation of two main elements: action and word. However, it is important to show, like Rancière does, that politics is not a perfect space for achieving human relationship, and it is marked by a failure that implies the non-participation of one part of the characters in the cast of the common world. In our national and regional context, indigenous individuals have been victims of this failure, and legal pluralism is an action to remedy this failure, that nevertheless is still in the threat of an estheticization of difference as a form of the others denial.