Relations between communication, aes-thetics and politics: tensions between the approaches of Habermas and Rancière

The aim of this paper is to compare Jürgen Habermas’ and Jacques Rancière’s views regarding communication, aesthetics and politics, in order to evidence that the formation of a political community express the tension between the familiar and the strange, the proper and the improper, the friend and the enemy. This formation process shows the gaps and breaks up the idea of the great social body protected by shared certainties and strongly unified by egalitarian principles previously accorded and almost never challenged. The habermasian concepts of “world of the life” and “ideal community of speak” are confronted to the notions of “dissensus” and “community of share” elaborated by Rancière, to show that the constitution of a political community must disclose that the partition of a common world is made, at the same time, of the attempt to establish bonds between broken universes and of the constant resistance to the permanence of these bonds