Constituent an-archy against sovereignty

Abstract

I intend to carry out in this article a critique of the idea of ​​sovereignty based on a reinterpretation of the theory of constituent power thought by Carl Schmitt, reinterpreted, however, in a democratic-radical key with the help of the 1843 text by the young Marx dedicated to the critique Hegel’s theory of the State and the notions of novelty and self-constitution of society thought by Cornelius Castoriadis. The objective is to oppose the idea of ​​sovereignty, understood as a unified and foundational power (arkhé), to the possibility of a constituent an-archy (notion proposed by Reiner Schürmann), that is, a social order without foundation, capable of overcoming encryption of the people as a false subject of sovereignty, insofar as they are nothing more than its object, as demonstrated by Sanín-Restrepo’s theory of encryption of power.