Political philosophy and cheap politics

Abstract

Political philosophy, that rather disreputable, not very philosophical branch of philosophy, has always wanted to get out of politics, to put an end to this politics of politics, by finilly speaking its truth. Ideally, the fondest desire may be to find or invent a politics unaffected by the politics of politics (a trully moral politics, perhaps, of the kind Kant seems to encourage), but that desire is metaphysical through. So-called "cheap politics" is engaged in the politics of politics as soon as that phenomenon is engaged in politics, i. e. from the very first, "naturally" as Aristotle put it. The logos of politics is irredusibly affected by the kind of distortion and deceit that is usually - moralistically - associated with rhetoric or sophistry, with "spin tactics".