An aesthetics revision of the concept of 'multitude'.

Abstract

his article will review the concept of ‘multitude’ from an aesthetic point of view. Firstly, the theo-retical dispute brought forth by the post-Marxist philosophers Toni Negri and Paolo Verno in regard to the radical opposition of the concepts of ‘people’ and ‘multitude’ will be analyzed. Secondly, through the critical examination of the 191works by Jacques Rancière, Hannah Arendt, and Judith Butler it will be suggested a return to sensibility as an alternative which might be able to break said drastic dichotomy between the con-cepts of 'people' and 'multitude'; thus, leading the latter toward the realm of the sensible.