Abstract
This work discusses the concepts of politics, police, dissent, consensus, democracy and post-democracy developed by Jacques Rancière, as well as explores his critical power regarding the advances of neoliberalism on a global scale. Usually politics is summed up as the struggle for power and the legitimacy to exercise it, while democracy is seen as the holding of periodic elections to choose governors. For Rancière, the meanings of such words are distorted and distant from their etymological origin. However, if democracy and politics are not exactly what we think, what else can they be? This paper intends to answer this question and to demonstrate how the naturalization of these conceptual distortions is related to the neoliberal logic that mitigates the public and universal character of issues such as labor, health, education and social security.
Keywords:
Rancière; Politics; Democracy