Foucault y los nuevos filósofos
- At 23 March, 2019
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FOUCAULT AND THE NEW PHILOSOPHERS: TACTICAL SUPPORT OR PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERGENCE?
[Foucault y los nuevos filósofos: ¿apoyo táctico o convergencia filosófica?]
Luis Diego Fernández
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella – CIF
Miñones 2073, C1428ATE, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ldf@fibertel.com.ar
ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to do an analysis of the philosophical and political relationship between Michel Foucault and the called “new philosophers” (Bernard-Henri Lévy and André Glucksmann) in the year 1977. It inquires in the kind of confluence that existed: if it was only a political-tactical support or it implied a bigger philosophical coincidence. It evaluates the reception of certain foucauldian concepts (revolution, discipline, pleb) that the new philosophers do, as well as the Foucault’s reading of Glucksmann’s texts. In this sense, we consider the hypothesis of a liberal use by the new philosophers of Foucault’s work.
Keywords: Discipline, Left, Liberal-Libertarian, Pleb, Revolution.
Democracy by sortition…
- At 28 January, 2019
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DEMOCRACY BY SORTITION: AN ANALYSIS THROUGH A MICRO-EXPERIMENT WITH PUBLIC GOOD GAME
[Democracia por sorteo: análisis a través de un micro-experimento con juego de bienes públicos]
Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza
Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), España
Carlos Santamaria Zentroa, Elhuyar plaza 2, 20018, Donostia, España
anibalmastobiza@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
How to organize our society is one of the most perennial questions of the social and behavioral sciences and one of the deepest philosophical concerns. Society is complex to manage. Periodically, in most western countries a plurality of views and a diversity of preferences are aligned and coordinated via voting mechanisms to elect an individual or a political organization (party) in order to mange such complexity. This is what is called direct democracy or representative democracy. The concept of democracy was originally coined in ancient Greece 2400 years ago and in its present form it creates a perverse structure of incentives which produces unwelcome outcomes such as social inequalities in elected officials, unrepresentativeness, rule of the elite and oligarchy and also a lack of diversity. In this paper, I want to explore, both theoretically and empirically, the potential of sortition (random selection) in the form of micro-experiments in game theory to improve democracy.
Keywords: sortition, institutional design, democracy, experiments with games.
Sovereign Debt and Human Rights
- At 16 November, 2018
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HUMAN RIGHT, SOVEREIGN DEBT AND WHY STATES SHOULD NOT KEEP THEIR PROMISES
[Derechos Humanos, Deuda Soberana y Por Qué Los Estados No Deberían Cumplir Siempre sus Promesas]
Anahí Wiedenbrüg
London School of Economics and Political Science
65 Aldwych, London, WC2B E4J, United Kingdom
a.e.wiedenbrug@lse.ac.uk
ABSTRACT
When should binding debt contracts not be repaid? This article argues that whenever the repayment of sovereign debt threatens the human rights of the citizenry, this provides a weighty normative reason to prioritize the fulfilment of the latter over the former. Since there are specific, non-coincidental reasons to fear that a high indebtedness of states may result in the undermining of the socio-economic and the collective human rights of a state’s citizenry, the more specific thesis defended in this article is the following: whenever debt repayment undermines the socio-economic and collective human rights of the state´s citizenry, states have a normatively weighty reason to prioritize the fulfilment of the citizen’s human rights over meeting their contractual debt payment obligations vis-à-vis their creditors.
Keywords: Sovereign Debt, Debt Repayment, Human Rights, Global Justice, Critiques of Capitalism.
Derechos sociales y examen…
- At 16 November, 2018
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SOCIAL RIGHTS AND PROPORTIONALITY ANALYSIS
[Derechos sociales y examen de proporcionalidad]
Federico De Fazio
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Becario posdoctoral del Conicet
Av. Figueroa Alcorta, 2263, 1° Piso (Instituto “A. L. Gioja”), Buenos Aires – Argentina
federicodefazio@derecho.uba.ar
ABSTRACT
This article aims to realize a rational reconstruction of the use of the proportionality analy-sis in order to adjudicate social rights. It supports the thesis that a social right is violated when the omission of one several factual positive actions, which limits it, is dispropor-tionate in a broadly sense, i.e., that either it lacks suitability or unnecessary or it is dispro-portionate in a narrow sense.
Keywords: Social Rights, Proportionality Analysis; Rationality.
For the People: A Republican Stand…
- At 16 November, 2018
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FOR THE PEOPLE: A REPUBLICAN STAND ON INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION
[A favor del pueblo: una postura republicana a favor de las intervenciones internacionales]
María Victoria Kristan
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Partizanska cesta 6, Kranj, Slovenija, UE.
victoria.kristan@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
International interventions have traditionally been justified on the basis of (alleged) human rights violations, insofar as these strike us as intolerably unjust. In this paper I will argue that there are compelling reasons for the international community to consider political legitimacy as an additional value to be protected. I offer three independent arguments in favour of my claim. The first two arguments dwell on the relationship between democracy and human rights. The third aims to show that political legitimacy has logical and normative priority over justice. From this priority it follows that international interventions should be made with the aim of ensuring political legitimacy.
Keywords: democracy – legitimacy – human rights – non-domination – international intervention.
Special Issue – Human Rights under Threat
- At 16 November, 2018
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Special Issue – Human Rights under Threat
Introduction
The Dualism Man-Citizen…
- At 3 October, 2018
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THE DUALISM MAN-CITIZEN IN JOHN RAWL’S THEORY
[La dualidad hombre-ciudadano en la teoría de John Rawls]
Fernando Lizárraga
IPEHCS (Conicet-UNComahue)
Buenos Aires 1400 (8300) Neuquén, Argentina
falizarraga@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The dualism man-citizen represents one of the founding features of liberalism. From the perspective of Gerald A. Cohen, this division embodies the fundamental disagreement between socialism and John Rawls’s liberal egalitarianism. Thus, adopting Cohen’s viewpoint, I first look into some general traits of this case and then go on to point out how it has an impact on the responsibility for preferences. Secondly, taking into account the two parts of the basic structure, I analyze how the first principle of justice –as a constitutional essential– is linked to citizens as a “collective body”, whereas the second principle –lacking force of law– is taken upon by particular individuals and associations. Lastly, in view of the tensions between the motives of citizens and individuals, I hold that the social minimum prescribed by Rawls might be insufficient to secure the fair equality of political liberties, fraternity, and self-respect, given the inequalities allowed by the difference principle.
Keywords: Citizenship, Liberalism, Difference principle, Rawls, Socialism.
A neoliberal Foucault?
- At 1 June, 2018
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A NEOLIBERAL FOUCAULT?
[¿Un Foucault neoliberal?]
Edgardo Castro
Conicet / UNSAM
Miñones 2073, CP 1177, CABA, Argentina
edgardomanuelcastro@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This article deals with Michel Foucault’s 1978 and 1979 courses on liberalism and neoliberalism. It aspires to elucidate the historical circumstances, the conception of liberalism as critical political rationality and its projections in Foucault’s subsequent research. Along the same lines, the article also makes some critical considerations about the reception of Foucault’s ideas about liberal and neoliberal thought.
Keywords: Liberalism, Political Left, Critic, Veridiction, Security.