Agonistic democracy must be apprehended dynamically as an infinite process of disorganization and reorganization of social-historic reality, rather than as a political or social order identified with specific judicial or institutional characteristics. Through the affirmation of the liberty and efficaciousness of human action, democracy induces a recurrent conflict with respect to the legitimacy of the present world and that to come, as with the ways in which the world may be transformed. Through its potentialities for critique and creativity, the agonistic character of democracy impulses and maintains political autonomy unendingly, as the order of things is always subject to be put into question.