The impotence confirmed by the vote: the sartrian critique of indirect democracy and the understanding of freedom as political action.
situated freedom, practical-inert field, seriality, serial impotence, group
Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy is extremely wide-ranging, having traveled a long way between its first phase, marked by an existential-ontological emphasis, and his second phase charcterized by a historical and political approach, much influenced by his reading of Karl Marx. The inexistence of any rupture in this path is something that can only be verified from the understanding of human freedom, situated, as its guiding thread. In this context, this paper aims to explore Sartre's critique of voting and indirect democracy, manifested in the article "Eléctions, piège à cons" (1973), starting from the deepening of ideas central to his
philosophy, such as situated freedom, practical-inert field, seriality, serial impotence, and group.
In this way, we seek to retrace, within the limits that the format allows, the path of situated freedom
as human condition also in sociability and history, as an act of liberation, as political action.