On the Primacy of Politics: the "ontological turn" as a turn towards political acting"

In recent years, political thought has taken a certain turn, at times referred as the "ontological turn" that differentiates between politics and the political. The question of political ontology has been developed by numerous authors, who have distinguished between an ontic politics and the ontology of the political (relative to the totality of the social field, but not only to its particular practice). This differentiation (which in French is given by the difference between la politique and le politique) goes back to the article Paul Ricoeur's "The political paradox", and it has emerged strongly in thinkers, such as Jean-Francois Lyotard, Claude Lefort, Alain Badiou, Jacob Rogozinski, Jacques Ranciere and Etienne Balibar in the Eighties.