Meaning and Language based on a poststructuralist approach to Discourse Theory

Abstract

This paper specifically develops a discussion on how, based on the Discourse Theory, initially developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, we can articulate the notions of meaning and language as instituting the real through discourse. For this, through two sections we develop an argument that considers reality as always being mediated by language and we also emphasize how the category of discourse is understood as a privileged space in which the processes of meaning of this same reality take place. This approach is part of a sometimes heteroclite theoretical framework, which approximates philosophical contributions considered, in general, as poststructuralists and postfoundationalists, provoking us to think that, in the impossibility of being a fundamental thought, philosophy becomes an intrinsically political thought.