Los alcances de la crítica de la violencia de Balibar: un diálogo entre el feminismo abolicionista de Tiganus y el enfoque fenomenológico de Merleau-Ponty

This article seeks to actualise the Balibarian critique of violence. I argue that, in order to approach this critique, it is necessary to start from two presuppositions. On the one hand, I point out that all violence is the paradoxical result of a negation of violence. This paradoxical realisation of violence allows its articulation with extreme forms of violence that expose human coexistence to failure and even imminent self-destruction. Now, on the other hand, I argue that to get out of this predicament it is necessary to rethink the concept of the political, pointing out that there is a certain irreducibility of violence in human coexistence and that the critique of violence has to do with the actualisation of this political condition of our existence. To address this last point, I concentrate my efforts on putting Balibar's position in dialogue with that of the phenomenology of M. Merleau-Ponty and that of the abolitionist feminism of A. Tiganus.