Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.2.4
Salvo Vaccaro
En este artículo, Vaccaro pretende interrogar el valor político de la verdad. Partiendo de Hannah Arendt y del debate entre modernidad y posmodernidad, el artículo se centra en la Voluntad de verdad según la elaboró Nietzsche, pero también en el primer curso de Collège de France de Foucault en los años 70. La tesis es una etopolítica de decir la verdad, es decir, la parresia, como antídoto tanto contra la aniquilación de la verdad por parte de la posverdad, como para el fortalecimiento de la verdad como lo Uno de la política.
在这篇文章中,瓦卡罗试图质疑真相的政治价值。本文从汉娜·阿伦特和现代性与后现代的争论出发,着重探讨尼采阐述的真理意志,但也着重于20世纪70年代福柯的college de France的第一门课程。这篇论文是一种讲真话的民族政治,即parresia,作为一种解药,既可以对抗后真理对真理的湮灭,也可以加强作为政治之一的真理。
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Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.2.12
Lidia Lo Schiavo
This essay is aimed at thematising the topic of post-truth in the ‘post-democratic’ constellation. From this perspective, it firstly illustrates contents and features of the broad concept of post-democracy, therefore analysing both the issue of the crisis of democracy and the impact of contemporary neoliberal platform capitalism on these process. Hence, it addresses the related topics of new technologies and changes in political communication, along with the unfolding of the neo-populist phenomenology. A number of concluding meta-theoretical reflections on the relationship between democracy, knowledge and political representation are also developed.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.2.8
M. Flatscher, Sergej Seitz
This paper, first published in German in Le Foucaldien 4(1) 2018 and in English in Le Foucaldien 6(1) 2020, explores Bruno Latour’s critique of contemporary critical theory. According to Latour, poststructuralist conceptions of critical inquiry are becoming increasingly outdated. In our “post-factual” era, attempting to expose facts as results of power-laden processes of social construction plays into the hands of anti-scientific obscurantists. This is not to say, however, that one ought to opt for some reductionist notion of objectivity. Instead, Latour proposes a new form of critical realism. While we agree with Latour about the necessity of widening our epistemological paradigm, we deem his critique of poststructuralism unfair and exaggerated. Moreover, we argue that he fails to account for the relationship between epistemology, power, and subjectivity. Since Foucault, on the other hand, succeeds where Latour falls short and probes into this very relationship, his is a form of critique that remains crucial to tackling the current crisis of truth.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.1.8
Jamila M. H. Mascat
This article argues for the centrality of the notion of class struggle in both political theory and praxis in order to counter what E. M. Wood, echoing P. Anderson (1983), has referred to as the «randomization of politics» (1986), namely a politics reduced to pure contingency where no causality between the social and the political is allowed. It suggests that class struggle is precisely the lost cause of radical politics, since class struggle operates as a synthetic principle informing a concept of society as a whole and a view of antagonism as a systemic and totalistic instance. Drawing on Daniel Bensaïd’s «philosophy of strategy» and its critical reading of Marx’s class theory (Bensaïd, 1995; 2002; 2011; 2016), the article suggests that class struggle be rethought as a new «strategic universalism» across the international division of labor. Along the lines of Bensaïd’s understanding of politics as a «strategic art» of recommencement (Bensaïd, 1995), it will be argued here that radical politics cannot do without class struggle or without the party
本文主张阶级斗争概念在政治理论和实践中的中心地位,以对抗E. M. Wood(呼应P. Anderson(1983))所说的“政治的随机化”(1986),即政治被简化为纯粹的偶然性,不允许社会和政治之间存在因果关系。它表明,阶级斗争恰恰是激进政治的失败原因,因为阶级斗争作为一种综合原则运作,将社会概念作为一个整体,并将对抗观点作为一个系统和整体的实例。借鉴丹尼尔Bensaïd的“战略哲学”及其对马克思阶级理论的批判性解读(Bensaïd, 1995;2002;2011;2016),文章建议将阶级斗争作为一种跨越国际劳动分工的新的“战略普遍主义”进行重新思考。按照Bensaïd对政治作为一种重新开始的“战略艺术”的理解(Bensaïd, 1995),这里将论证激进政治不能没有阶级斗争或没有党
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.1.15
Serena Vantin
This paper analyses Edmund Burke’s view of slavery, focusing in particular on his Sketch of a Negro Code and its legal background. Two forces in tension will be identified: the first one takes imperial economic necessities seriously, within a concept of a legal order based on an “organic” premise; the second one leads to a view of moral equality between human beings that does not exclude black people.
{"title":"A sketch of a negro code : Edmund Burke and the regulation of slavery.","authors":"Serena Vantin","doi":"10.14718/softpower.2019.6.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14718/softpower.2019.6.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses Edmund Burke’s view of slavery, focusing in particular on his Sketch of a Negro Code and its legal background. Two forces in tension will be identified: the first one takes imperial economic necessities seriously, within a concept of a legal order based on an “organic” premise; the second one leads to a view of moral equality between human beings that does not exclude black people.","PeriodicalId":55701,"journal":{"name":"Soft Power Revista EuroAmericana de Teoria e Historia de la Politica","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89517789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.1.6
Alfredo D'Attorre
The article analyzes the complex and problematic relationship between populist insurgency and the return of the class struggle. The ‘populist moment’ is interpreted as a counter-movement with respect to the disruptive social results of the thirty-year period of neo-liberal globalization and as an obligatory passage, in the current historical conjuncture, to reactivate the possibility of a distributive conflict in a practicable political space, that of the National State. After the initial onset, however, populism is structurally inadequate, due to its very logic of functioning, to give form to a class struggle anchored in the pluralism of social interests and to resist the risk of reactionary drifts and colonization from above by the dominant economic forces.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.2.3
D. Palano
This article sustains that the so-called ‘post-truth’ phenomenon also depends on the characteristics of the new ‘hybrid’ communicative scenario. The thesis is that this new scenario is substantially different from that of the ‘party democracy’, protagonist of significant part of the twentieth century, and from that of the ‘audience democracy’, defined by Bernard Manin in the mid-nineties. The emergence of new media entails a series of consequences, including the fragmentation of the audience into a plurality of self-referential segments, politically polarized ‘bubbles’, devoid, at least potentially, of a common communicative sphere. Taking into account such developments, the article seeks to construct the ‘ideal type’ of a ‘bubble democracy’, marked by the mistrust of institutions, fragmentation of the audience, disintermediation, homophilic tendencies, and polarization.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.1.21
G. Cappelli
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.1.9
Giuseppe Cascione
Este artículo analiza el concepto de conciencia de clase de György Lukács a la luz de las reflexiones elaboradas por Slavoj Žižek sobre la lucha de clases. En contra de la opinión generalizada de que las sociedades occidentales han entrado en una era postpolítica, el objetivo de este artículo es poner de manifiesto que el conflicto entre trabajo y capital sigue siendo relevante para entender las dinámicas contemporáneas del capitalismo globalizado. Para ello, se argumenta que la lucha de clase es inherente al mundo capitalista moderno. El proceso de toma de conciencia de clase por parte del proletariado, elemento imprescindible de la lucha de clase, se ve sin embargo constantemente obstaculizado por las clases hegemónicas a través de la cortina de humo del populismo. Por último, la teoría de Žižek sobre el concepto de lucha de clases se contempla como un constructo potencialmente eficaz para la construcción de un nuevo sujeto revolucionario.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.1.1
Geminello Preterossi
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