The article shows how the significations that give meaning to the normative political dimension as such are not the outcome resulting of transposing an a priori a-historical set of ideals deductively applied into each concrete historical situation. For the political dimension has its own autonomy and it finds its meaning in itself, without the necessity of referring itself to an external instance of validation. However, it becomes clear how through a necessary immanent historical mediation result an initial intersubjective and practical-linguistic intrigue that links both dimensions, the ethical one and the political, including its practical implications. In this way, it is shown how the praxis of speech, as conceived by Levinas but also as it was already implicitly envisioned in the ancient rhetoric, constitutes the form of mediation par excellence from which the significations that confer sense to the political are instituted.
