Communisme de la finitude, éthique de la libération, paradigme de la traduction

The emergence of historical Marxism took place within a paradigmatic framework postulating the autoproduction of man (Tosel). In reformulating the Marxian project as one of liberation, we must start out from our finite existence as acting and suffering subjects in history. It follows that such a reformulation of Marxism requires both a theory of agency and an ethics to be envisaged as the thrust towards self-realisation of a living being endowed with a discursive faculty, a being who strives for a meaningful life within a community of humans. It is here that we recover the link between the theme of agency and the theme of language, in particular relative to the question of the plurality of languages and of the potentialities of translation, envisaged as a paradigm of being in common and of the common agency of humans.