One aspect of politics as performance as a disclosure of self and a common public world is that it recognizes the plurality of opinion in the political world. This plurality is based on the play of perspectives that the difference of position creates.
This plurality is understood by Arendt's politics as performance in terms of a rejection of the Platonic privileging of (absolute)truth and identifies opinion as the stuff of political life.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at September 13, 2005 03:10 PM | TrackBack