Pensamiento complejo y democracia. Problematización de los paradigmas liberal y populista

Abstract

Edgar Morin's centennial is an opportunity to think about the academic and political future of complex thinking beyond the writing of the author of “The Method”. To this end, we propose to initiate a dialogue between complex thinking and political philosophy. Our objective is to problematize democracy from a controversial dialogue between the philosophy of complex thinking with liberal philosophy and populist philosophy. This problematization work allows us to conceptualize five controversies about democracy: paradigmatic controversies, historical-philosophical controversies, anthropological controversies, controversies about the truth and controversies about subjectivation and the social bond. Our analysis shows the paradigmatic similarities and differences between liberal and populist political rationality. Complex thinking and the anthropology of human complexity conceptualized by Morin allow us to think of a theoretical and practical strategy to make democracy more complex.