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In reflecting on political philosophy, Jacques Rancière proposes a unique question: how can thought arbitrate on human action without this theorizing producing a privilege of the former over the latter. From this point of view, philosophy has something irreconcilable in relation to politics, an imposition that seeks to determine an object that is indeterminable. Politics, in the philosopher's view, corresponds to a miscalculation, to the incommensurable, to what escapes the rule. In this sense, there is a problem inherent to political philosophy, which concerns its very possibility of existence. The political event is the one that gives rise to new political figures, new figures of thought, new ways of being. Thus, any aprioristic definition is, from the outset, a maintenance of a pre-existing order, in other words, of something that, by definition, politics intends to break, which means that political thought has a congenital problem with its possibilities of existence.