Political discourse. Notes for a Wittgeinsteinian approach

Abstract

This paper suggests an argument in favour of the relevance of Wittgenstein's proposal on language for the analysis of political discourse. Wittgenstein's perspective, as interpreted here, offers a relevant political argument: the possibility of applying the descriptive-normative paradigm that characterises the grammar of concepts (that is, the set of norms that give order to the use of terms) to the realm of action. This makes it possible to analyse not only political discourse but also, from this perspective, the political forms life.