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Seven Essays on Populism: For a Renewed Theoretical Perspective, written by the duo of Argentine philosophers Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia, is an audacious, lucid, and urgent book. It is also a text traversed by an unresolved tension between two approaches: a first, ontological approach, indebted not only to Martin Heidegger's thinking of ontological difference but also to the mobilisation of this difference in political theory in the work of Ernesto Laclau and Jorge Alemán; and a radically different, historical or conjunctural approach, for which the authors find inspiration in the evidential or indexical paradigm of Carlo Ginzburg. This review discusses the advantages and shortcomings of these two approaches, reading Biglieri and Cadahia's book, as it were, against itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author of the article analyzes the concepts of infrapolitcs and the impolitical in modern political philosophy, focusing upon the writings of political philosophers, particularly Roberto Esposito and Alberto Moreiras. It is argued that Esposito and Moreiras believe that infrapolitics and the impolitical have moved into the realm of philosophy, which is a decision the author asserts is in favor of inaction as a remedy to political activism. The concepts of parapolitics, archipolitics, and metapolitics are also discussed, as are the writings of several philosophers on these subjects, such as Karl Marx, Thomas Hobbes, and Jacques Rancière.

A literary criticism of the article "Rhapsody for Theatre: A Short Philosophical Treatise," by Alain Badiou is presented. It outlines aspects of dialogue, conceptual propositions, and the bold analogy the article presents between theater and politics. In the article, Badiou discusses the fundamental political significance of the theater.

This article focuses on the author's views and insights about communism. Impact of Alain Badiou's affirmation of an invariant form of communism in need of an audacious resurrection; Importance of witnessing a project to salvage an idea or practice of communism from the agonizing history of its own defacement despite the shift from absolute immanence to radical finitude; Discussion of the two perspectives, or two directions, from which one might read the problem of historical referentiality which alone organizes the communist invariants and thereby gives structure to the body of accumulated knowledge that is Marxism.