The article deals with the debate that took place in the German press after the publication of Peter Sloterdijk's short, but provocative text "The Revolution of the Giving Hand" in 2009. The aim of this presentation is to show the insufficiency of the arguments raised against Sloterdijk's idea that the taxes should not be mandatory, but they should rather take on a form of a voluntary gift and a free contribution to the community. The debate was insufficient as far as it didn't address the philosophical aspect of Sloterdijk's idea - the problem of the overerotization of contemporary social life, its lack of the thymotic element: pride, generosity etc. and the destruction of social solidarity by the machine of the modern welfare state. If Sloterdijk's tax regulation idea is to be dealt with properly and criticised in its entirety, it must be first understood in its whole philosophical and political dimension.
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The article is concentrated around the thesis claiming that the political, understood as a domain independent from the others factors (such as social, economic, biopolitical, etc.) determining life, requires some kind of a negative mediation. Nevertheless, the most important philosophers for the paper try to go rather beyond the modern (Hegelian) limitation of the negativity. In the first part, the thesis is tested against the theorists connected with the Lacanian Left, so the philosophical proposition of E. Laclau and Ch. Mouffe (the „antagonism” and the „constitutive lack”) is discussed as well as J. Rancière’s concept of the „disagreement”. However, the main attention is attracted first and foremost to the contemporary Italian philosophy starting with the debate between M. Cacciari and A. Negri in the 60s. Then the role of the negative within the thought of R. Esposito is analyzed in close relation to his concept of the community (and the forces immunized us from it), whereas in the case of the philosophical projects of P. Virno and G. Agamben, it is rather the language (its dispositive) that introduces the negative into the human life. Finally the negativity seems to constitute a particular kind of human life’s potentiality.
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