RENAN FERREIRA DA SILVA

Our research aims to perform a cross-reading of the theories of Jacques Derrida and Jacques Rancière based on the presence of the ideas of “specter” and “ghost” in their writings, a reading that intends, more than revealing an underlying theoretical approach, to understand the idea of ​​“suspensive existences” or “non-existent existences”, another name for Rancière’s concept of literary fiction, as a radicalization of the derridean specter. Although both authors have distinct philosophical projects – while Derrida’s writing focuses on the critique of metaphysics and its immanent logocentrism, Rancière’s work seeks to perceive a way of understanding the relations between ways of being, saying and doing – both Derrida’s deconstruction and Rancière’s egalitarian philosophy propose to "think the ghost” or to “think with the specters”, defending the idea of ​​a minimal and paradoxical existence, a becoming-body that disrupts the entire logic of the self and of property.