Abstract
The article aims at discussing the philosophical and theoretical implications that Martin Heidegger’s ontological reflection have exercised over post-structuralism, mainly that one received by political theory. To accomplish this objective, firstly, we present the notions of post-structuralism and post-foundationalism. After that, we carry out an exegetic exercise regarding Heidegger’s notion of ground, by establishing the distinction between their epistemological and ontological effects. Then, we critically analyse the Heideggerian foundational reading elaborated by Marchart. In the last section, considering the radical Heideggerian foundation, we propose our approach on the political difference, having Heidegger’s ontological difference as ground. This reading might be simplified in the following terms: there is no ground in Being but being is grounded on itself.
Keywords:
Political theory; Post-structuralism; Foundation; Political difference