espanolEnrique Dussel es el filosofo latinoamericano que mas se ha atrevido a pensar el poder politico como potentia, como poder indeterminado, que nace de la voluntad de vida y determina la potestas desde su exigencia vital. Este hecho brota de su critica al poder fetichizado postulado por la modernidad y de la lectura de las tesis voluntaristas de Schopenhauer y Nietzsche que ayudan a vislumbrar la gramatica propia de la voluntad como potencia creadora de la potestas que pone de mediaciones para vida. EnglishEnrique Dussel is the Latin American philosopher who has dared to think political power as potentia, as an indeterminate power, which is born of the will to life and determines the potestas from its vital demand. This fact stems from his criticism of the fetishized power postulated by modernity and the reading of the voluntarist theses of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche that help to glimpse the grammar of the will as the creative power of the potestas that mediations for life.