It is not my intention to advocate a total pluralism and I do not
believe it is possible to avoid excluding some points of view. No state or
political order, even a liberal one, can exist without some forms of
exclusion. My point is different. I want to argue that it is very
important to recognize those forms of exclusion for what they are and
the violence that they signify, instead of concealing them under the
veil of rationality. To disguise the real nature of the necessary
'frontiers' and modes of exclusion required by a liberal democratic
order by grounding them in the supposedly neutral character of
'rationality' creates effects of occupation which hinder the proper
workings of democratic politics. William Connolly is right when he
indicates that 'the pretense to neutrality functions to maintain
established settlements below the threshold of public discourse.'
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