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This article analizes the possibilities for a legitimation in contemporary democracies. Grounding in Weber's tipology in Economy and Society we analyze the models of rational, traditional and charismatic legitimacy as they appear in contamporary thinkers as J. Habermas, C. Schmitt and J. Derrida.

The article analyzes the main manners of conceptualizing the public realm in political thinking of the late 20th century. The four principal focus of thinking are: the igualitarian liberalism of Rawls; the theory of the communicative action of Habermas; the libertarian liberalism of Nozick and Narveson and the political perfectionism of Taylor, Sandel and Walzer.

The present article examines the conflict between Freedom and Common Good in contemporary Philosophy. It's seeing an analysis on Benjamin Constant's text in the middle of discussion among both traditions to support two theories. The first maintains that Political or Social Freedom is condition for Individual Freedom. The second one defends that Political Freedom only can take shape taking the Common Good as a starting point. ; El artículo examina el conflicto entre los conceptos de libertad y bien común en la filosofía contemporánea. Se parte del análisis de un texto de Benjamin Constant que se encuentra en el centro de la discusión entre las dos tradiciones, para defender dos tesis: la libertad política o social es condición de la libertad individual, y la libertad política sólo se puede configurar desde el bien común.

This article deals with what kind of link might join politics and university. The link that we propose between these two concepts is the idea of citizenship. This article studies in which way the French Revolution created a new concept of citizenship and how this new idea of citizenship has affected the contemporary university. We conclude that in this political and sociological context the university -with an universalistic cultural ideal- must paradoxically be "counter-cultural" ; Este artículo analiza la relación entre política y universidad a través del significado de la ciudadanía como concepto articulador de las relaciones entre el individuo y la vida pública. El modo de entender la ciudadanía en el mundo contemporáneo puede ser considerado como herencia de la Revolución. El artículo describe la génesis histórica del concepto postrevolucionario de ciudadanía y el modo cómo sus características esenciales afectan a la universidad contemporánea para concluir que en este contexto sociopolítico, la universidad, precisamente por su vocación universalista, debe mantener una tensión frente a la política que hace de ella una institución necesaria y paradójicamente "contracultural"

AbstractThis article argues that through the reinterpretation of the old theory of pouvoir constituant proposed by Sieyès, Carl Schmitt shows the impossibility of political modernity being anything other than authoritarian populism, whether by means of democratic or autocratic procedures. It is not that Schmitt's theory is authoritarian populism, but that modern politics, born out of the French Revolution, cannot be anything else. Schmitt's analyses of the idea of the people in political modernity in Dictatorship (1921), The Crises of Parliamentary Democracy (1923), Volksentscheid und Volksbegehren (1927), Constitutional Theory (1928), and State, Movement, People (1933) provide a fine analysis of the populist character of modernity. Something that those alive in the twenty-first century have been able to experience was theorized by Schmitt in an oracular way. Because of his keen insight he is still worth reading.

El tiempo histórico juega con las dimensiones de presente, pasado y futuro, correlativas a los modos de experimentar el tiempo por parte del hombre.

Muchos de los problemas actuales en nuestra sociedad, sobre todo algunos vinculados a las relaciones entre países y pueblos, como la inmigración, plantean de fondo la necesidad de repensar conceptos y anhelos humanos tan importantes como el de la hospitalidad.