RENAN FERREIRA DA SILVA

Our research aims to carry out a cross-reading of the theories of Jacques Derrida and Jacques Rancière from the presence of the ideas of “spectre” and “ghost” in their writings, a reading that attempts, more than to reveal an underlying theoretical approach, to understand the idea of “suspension existences” or “nonexistent existences”, another name for Rancière's concept of literary fiction, as a radicalization of the derridian spectral. Although both authors have different philosophical projects – while Derrida's writings turn to the critique of metaphysics and its immanent logocentrism, Rancière's work seeks to understand a way of understanding the relationships between ways of being, saying and doing – , both Derrida’s deconstruction and Rancière’s egalitarian philosophy propose “thinking the ghost” or “thinking with the specters”, defending the idea of a minimal and paradoxical existence, a becoming-body that disturbs the entire logic of property.