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El europeísmo y sus retos democráticos en el marco adverso del neoliberalismo global : cultivo del ethos humanista de Europa y renovación del contrat…
2019
Resumen: ¿Cuáles son los valores que han de sustentar el incierto futuro de la Europa del siglo XXI inmersa en un mundo multipolar en gestación? Metodológicamente desde una hermenéutica fenomenológica crítica con vocación normativa, el artículo intenta dar respuesta a tal pregunta mediante dos objetivos concretos. Primero, a partir del acervo común de los humanismos democráticos asentado tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial por el europeísmo político, establecer los valores y principios que, a modo de ética pública, deberían regir la imperiosa renovación del contrato sociopolítico de las democracias europeas. Y segundo, diagnosticar algunos de los impedimentos a este deseable desarrollo de las de…
Valodas politika un valodas lietošana kā kopienas integrācijas instruments: Pētījums Latvijas Universitātes studentu vidū
2019
Latvijā ir 1,93 miljoni iedzīvotāju un latviešu valoda ir valsts valoda. Tomēr tikai 60% no iedzīvotājiem runā latviski – krievu valoda ir otrā populārākā valoda. Pēc komunistiskās varas krišanas, valsts valdība īstenoja politiku ļoti daudzeveidīgai iedzīvotāju sociālajai integrācijai. Latvijas pievienošanās ES radīja vairāk jautājumu par pilsonību un valodu lietošanu. Viena no galvenajām valdības prioritātēm bija valodas politikas izveide. Latvijas oficiālā valodas politika ir vērsta uz latviešu valodas kā oficiālas valodas saglabāšanu un popularizēšanu. Šī pētījuma mērķis ir analizēt valodu lietošanu universitātes studentu vidū un to, kā tas ietekmē viņu integrāciju sabeidrībā pēc neatkar…
‘Whose side are you on?’: negotiations between individual liberty and collective responsibility in Millar and McNiven’sMarvel Civil War
2015
The Civil War series by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, published between July 2006 and January 2007, involves superheroes in a battle among themselves as an allegory for political conflicts of the United States, post-Patriot Act. Akin to Alan Moore’s Watchmen and the Uncanny X-Men series, Civil War centers on a political solution to regulate and control superhero vigilante justice. The rhetoric represented by the conflicting factions orbits the concerns of individual liberty vs. collective responsibility, with Captain America (a World War Two and Cold War warrior) siding most adamantly against government supervision and Iron Man fighting in favor of government control. The civil war played …
(Un)Natural and contractual international society: A conceptual inquiry
2011
This article offers a critical perspective on one of the central concepts of IR and the English School of IR in particular, namely the concept of international society. It argues that the moral agency of international society and its ‘naturalness’ were affirmed simultaneously with the marginalization of the concept of societas designating contractual political relations. The article traces the concept of contracted societas back to the work of Hugo Grotius, an acclaimed founder of the ‘international society’ tradition. By placing Grotius’ use of the concept in the context of ancient and early modern discussion of political alliances and partnerships, it demonstrates that politically contra…
Higher education and economic development in the OECD: policy lessons for other countries and regions
2016
ABSTRACTThis paper sheds light on the role of tertiary or higher education in economic development across two successful OECD case studies: Finland and South Korea. A number of key aspects are discussed, from the nature of the social contract between higher education and the economy to the endogenous characteristics of domestic higher education to the links between the sector and regional development, innovation and the labour market. The lessons learned are of importance to policy makers and institutional planners across the world, not least to less developing nations and regions, due to the unprecedented opportunities brought by a global, knowledge-based economy.
Controlar el Delito, Controlar la Sociedad. Teorías y debates sobre la cuestión criminal, del siglo XVII al XXI. Darío Melossi.
2018
Se ha hablado mucho de la seguridad y se ha debatidomás aún, pero argumentos sólidos como losque se encuentran en el libro Controlar el Delito,Controlar la Sociedad, no son tan frecuentes. El autorde esta obra, Dario Melossi, nos deleita con unatesis por demás interesante: los procesos delictivos yel orden reproductivo de la sociedad se encuentraninextricablemente unidos.El libro se encuentra estructurado en tres partesprincipales. La primera se corresponde con unalectura teórica del abordaje de los primeros criminólogoso sociólogos respecto a la pena y la desviación.Desde Beccaria hasta Durkheim todos losautores clásicos pasan por la pluma de Melossi. Losdiferentes estudiosos partieron d…
Umowa czy harmonia społeczna
2017
There are some well-known critiques of social contract undertaken from the traditionalist, communitarian and Marxist perspectives. This article suggests a different, rationalist approach: the return to classical rationality. I show that the idea of the social contract has its basis in the mistaken modern assertions concerning human nature, identifying human beings as individuals moved by desires and the will to power, and the phenomenon of life as an endless conflict. I argue that cooperation is essential to human life. It is cooperation and the presence of ethics in the public and private spheres that makes us fully human and civilized beings. The community organized according to the requi…
The Role of Nature in the Secularization of Criminal Law in Europe (17th–19th Centuries)
2020
Some authors have argued that enlightenment authors endorsed a social contract that was not compatible with the existence of laws of nature or a moral foundation for criminal law, while nineteenth-century liberal criminal lawyers founded criminal law upon a natural law theory, based on divine commands. This chapter demonstrates on the contrary that enlightenment authors did not necessarily make a sharp distinction between morality and criminal law, nor did 19th-century criminal lawyers adopted a conception of criminal law that was too heavily dependent on morality, as it was defended by medieval and early-modern-age scholars. The traditional dichotomy between enlightened thinkers and tradit…
Ética pública desde una perspectiva dialógica
2006
espanolEsta ponencia se divide en seis partes: Un mundo esquizofrenico; del Estado de justicia a la sociedad corresponsable; la etica del intercambio infinito; el contrato politico; la etica comunicativa y la Etica del reconocimiento compasivo. EnglishThis communication in divides in sic parts: A schizophenic world; of the Satet of justice to the co-responsible society; of the infinite interchange; the political contract; communicative ethics and to Ethics compassionate recognition.
The limits of subtractive politics: Agamben and Rousseau’s inheritance
2020
The article critically engages with Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Rousseau in order to explore the affinities between the two authors’ subtractive approach to political subjectivation. In The Kingdom and the Glory. Agamben argues that Rousseau’s Social Contract reproduces, in a secularized manner, the providential paradigm of government, whose origins Agamben finds in early Christianity. This paradigm establishes a fictitious articulation between transcendent sovereignty and immanent government, presenting particular acts of government as emanating from general divine laws. We shall demonstrate that Rousseau was neither unaware of the problematic character of this paradigm nor did he venture…