Nature sauvage, anarchie et division sociale chez Marc Richir

Abstract

In an unpublished book on the thought of Rousseau, Marc Richir begins a reflection on the question of pity. To do so, he draws on the readings of Jacques Derrida, which he intends to radicalize. In this paper, I would like to return to the phenomenological status of reflection within pity, to highlight a kind of reflexivity that precedes reflection. I will argue in favor that this reflexivity makes it possible to think of a “double-movement of phenomenalization” which, in an an-archic and a-teleological way, affects the question of the social and the political. Finally, I will argue that this double-movement imposes a double displacement in regard to the question of intersubjectivity, but also and above all with regarding the social division.