Crisis and critique: on the fragile foundations of social life
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Escritos por destacados sociólogos y cientistas políticos chilenos y de otros países latinoamericanos, los textos que conforman este volumen analizan los vínculos entre opinión pública y sistema político en las democracias modernas. Basados en investigaciones originales, ofrecen renovadas evidencias empíricas y rigurosas reflexiones, destinadas a enriquecer los debates conceptuales acerca del tema
In: Critical horizons: a journal of philosophy and social theory, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 1-16
ISSN: 1568-5160
In: Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 194-207
ISSN: 1467-8675
In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 3-18
ISSN: 1461-7390
This article proposes to read Niklas Luhmann's sociological theory of law from the perspective of what may be called the negative dialectics of law: namely, the irreconcilable tension between law as a mechanism that reproduces institutional orders and stabilizes normative expectations, and law as a medium that empowers transformative action and motivates social innovations. Drawing on this tension, the article advances an interpretation of the critical potential of Luhmann's conceptualization of law by pointing out that the normative form of society emerges out of conflicts about the form of the normative within society. This formulation supposes that the unfolding of law is not the rational completion of higher principles into unified social structures, but a contradictory outcome semantically produced through endless iterations of the difference between what is legal and what is illegal. In doing so, it argues for a sociological reconsideration of the work of juridical concepts in the everyday operation of legal communications, as well as in the normatively guided search for what is non-actualized within the existing scope of positive legal forms. By reading Luhmann along the lines of a critical engagement with the law, the article further calls for exploring constituent moments as instances of reflexive instability that signal the unmarked space of normativity and bring the politicality of concepts to the fore.
In: Distinktion: scandinavian journal of social theory, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 125-132
ISSN: 2159-9149
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 137, Heft 1, S. 55-71
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
The main goal of this paper is to offer a reading of Reinhart Koselleck's work as an ally of critical theory. My contention is that, despite customary accusations of Koselleck being an anti-Enlightenment historian detrimental to social criticism and emancipatory politics, his investigations on the semantic fabric of modern society may actually expand our resources for the critique of domination. In order to make this argument plausible, I reconstruct some antinomies that are at the basis of Koselleck's work (state/society, language/reality, experience/expectation) and discuss their critical potential. This analysis shows that, rather than a rejection of the spirit of critique, Koselleck contributes to the temporalization of the practice of critique as such: namely, a clarification of the contradictions and potentials of a reflexive practice imbued in the struggle between the need to comprehend the world as it is and the right to experiment with other forms of life.
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 137, Heft 1, S. 55-71
ISSN: 0725-5136
In: European journal of cultural and political sociology: the official journal of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Band 1, Heft 3, S. 249-265
ISSN: 2325-4815
In: European journal of social theory, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 497-515
ISSN: 1461-7137
At a time when ideas of crisis and critique are at the forefront of public discourse, this article seeks to understand moments of crisis vis-à-vis critique as a key feature of critical social theory. It addresses Jürgen Habermas's strong claim that this relationship accounts for a 'model of analysis' concerned with grasping the 'diremptions' of social life. To elaborate this reading, the article pays attention to the main problems Habermas identifies in conventional ways of understanding the concepts of 'crisis' and 'critique' in social theory. The aim is to examine the mode in which he reconsiders each of these terms and then reasserts the dialectical link between them. I reconstruct this relationship by taking as cases two of his most substantive works of social theorizing: The Theory of Communicative Action, and Between Facts and Norms. Based on this interpretation, I suggest that though Habermas contributes to resituating the practice of critique as a communicative translation of objective crisis, he does not adequately account for another key movement: when critique actually initiates, enacts and furthers the moment of crisis.
During a period of four decades the academic work of Renato Cristi has been illuminating, theoretically and historically, the foundations and intellectual development of Pinochet's civic-military dictatorship, as well as the influence and implications the conservative thought had in the institutional design of Chile's democracy. The interview, conducted between October and November of 2018, in person and by e-mail, discusses Cristi's contributions in perspective, including the biographical, methodological, conceptual and political aspects that helped shaped Cristi's academic work. ; El trabajo desarrollado por Renato Cristi durante más de cuatro décadas se ha destacado por iluminar teórica e históricamente los fundamentos y desarrollo intelectual de la dictadura cívico-militar de Pinochet, así como la influencia e implicancias del pensamiento conservador en el diseño institucional de la democracia chilena. La entrevista, realizada entre octubre y noviembre de 2018, en persona y vía correo electrónico, busca discutir estas contribuciones en perspectiva, abordando los aspectos biográficos, metodológicos, conceptuales y políticos que han marcado eltrabajo de Cristi.
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One of modern society's common features is its 'secular' character, that is, the fact that the principles that orient its social institutions and forms of knowledge become unburdened from the tutelage of religious practices and beliefs. Secularization raises thus the question of the constitutive fragility of modern social orders: the experience of living in a world that, because of its claim to enhanced autonomy, is missing an essential principle that guarantees order. The aim of this article is to explore the problem of secularization from a dual sociological and philosophical perspective: on the one hand, the necessity of modern society to organize its practices and institutions by following its own rules; on the other hand, its expectation of rationally justifying the values on which its institutions rest. In order to do this, we look at four process that to our mind distil the complex relations between practices of justification of normative orders and the dynamics of institutional organization: the 'rationalization' of values, the 'temporalization' of historical experience, the 'politization' of sovereignty and the 'automatization' of technology. On the basis of this reconstruction, we argue that 'the problem of secularization' points to the reflexive instability of modern societies: that is, the fact that the institutional orders that they achieve do not emerge from a single foundational value but from the plurality of forms that the normative achieves in society itself. ; Uno de los atributos comunes de las sociedades modernas es su carácter 'secular', es decir, el hecho de que los principios que orientan sus instituciones sociales y formas de conocimiento se desanclan del tutelaje de creencias y prácticas religiosas. La secularización plantea así la interrogante acerca de la fragilidad constitutiva de los órdenes sociales modernos: la experiencia de vivir en un mundo que, debido a su pretensión de creciente autonomía, carece de un principio esencial que garantice el orden. El objetivo de este artículo es explorar el problema de la secularización en una doble perspectiva sociológica y filosófica: por un lado, la necesidad de la sociedad moderna de organizar sus prácticas e instituciones siguiendo reglas propias; por el otro, la pretensión de esta sociedad de justificar racionalmente los valores en que descansan sus instituciones. Para ello, observamos cuatro procesos que a nuestro juicio destilan los complejos vínculos entre prácticas de justificación de órdenes normativos y dinámicas de organización institucional: la 'racionalización' de los valores, la 'temporalización' de la experiencia histórica, la 'politización' de la soberanía y la 'automatización' de la tecnología. Sobre la base de esta reconstrucción, sostenemos que lo que el 'problema de la secularización' señala no es otra cosa que la inestabilidad reflexiva de las sociedades modernas: es decir, el hecho de que los órdenes institucionales que ellas logran emergen no a partir de un único valor fundacional, sino a partir de la pluralidad de formas que lo normativo adopta en la propia sociedad.
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In: Cuadernos de Teoría Social, Band 5, Heft 9, S. 5-10
ISSN: 0719-6423
Para el presente número invitamos a nuestros contribuidores a reseñar libros "viejos" de teoría social latinoamericana. La totalidad del presente número de los Cuadernos está dedicado a la discusión de libros y, en consecuencia, a resignificar la reseña como forma de escritura académica. Se trata de reseñar libros que fueron escritos hace décadas atrás por autores que plantearon sus textos como contribución a las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas, sea alertados por el desarrollo local de la disciplina sociológica, por las tensiones entre dependencia y desarrollo, por la inquietud por la especificidad cultural latinoamericana, o por el potencial de universalización que pueden tener experiencias y procesos surgidos en la región. Todos estos libros abordan problemas importantes y, en efecto, sus respectivos reseñadores han decido volver a ellos pues estiman que, pese a sus imperfecciones, sus páginas guardan aspectos que han sobrevivido al paso del tiempo y el peso del