El antisemita, el liberal, la insolente y la amante. Luchas en torno de la disciplina y la autoridad en la formación del maestro argentino

Fil: Garguin, Enrique. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

El antisemita, el liberal, la insolente y la amante. Luchas en torno de la disciplina y la autoridad en la formación del maestro argentino

Fil: Garguin, Enrique. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Cuestiones de método en los estudios sobre tradición clásica : Problemas actuales, entre la violencia y la "neutralidad" liberal

Frente a la crisis actual de las humanidades, los especialistas en literaturas clásicas, a la hora justificar su disciplina, suelen adoptar una retórica liberal y humanista. Desde esta perspectiva, se supone que las clásicas son el medio de transmisión privilegiado de valores tales como la democracia, el pluralismo o el respeto por la diferencia. La presente ponencia discute contra estos postulados, y para ello analiza las relecturas de los clásicos por parte de las derechas francesas de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Se argumenta aquí que tales lecturas no deben ser simplemente descartadas como una falsificación ideológica, sino que deben hacernos reflexionar sobre el vínculo, a menudo elidido por el humanismo liberal, entre legado clásico y violencia

El antisemita, el liberal, la insolente y la amante. Luchas en torno de la disciplina y la autoridad en la formación del maestro argentino

Fil: Garguin, Enrique. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Marcadia Postponed: Marketing, Utopia and the Millennium

Before envisioning the future of marketing, as the conference theme suggests, it may be worthwhile examining our desire to envision the future of marketing. This paper argues that our need to imagine the future is part of an innate utopian propensity. It examines the relationship between marketing and utopianism, contends that marketing is inherently utopian in ethos, and concludes that, necessary though they are, future visions of marketing cannot and should not be enacted.

Resilience and the ‘everyday’: beyond the paradox of ‘liberal peace’

Over the last decade there has been a shift towards critical understandings of ‘liberal peace’ approaches to international intervention, which argue that local culture holds the key to the effectiveness of peace interventions. In this ‘bottom-up’ approach, peace, reconciliation, and a ‘culture of law’ then become secondary effects of sociocultural norms and values. However, these liberal peace critiques have remained trapped in the paradox of liberal peace: the inability to go beyond the binaries of liberal universalism and cultural relativism. This understanding will be contrasted with the rise of ‘resilience’ approaches to intervention – which build on this attention to the particular context of application but move beyond this paradox through philosophical pragmatism and the focus on concrete social practices. This article clarifies the nature of this shift through the focus on the shifting understanding of international intervention to address the failings of the ‘war on drugs’ in the Americas.

The Formation of a Liberal Thinker: Georg Jellinek and his Early Writings (1872 – 1878)

Georg Jellinek is known as one of the most prominent representative of German legal positivism. This article aims at identifying and discussing the more theoretical- political connotation of Jellinek’s thought with a particular focus on his liberal inspiration. According to the perspective of the history of political thought, this article shows how some intellectual premises to Jellinek’s liberalism take shape and emerge from a series of young Jellinek’s writings on history of philosophy and history of ideas.

The Good Liberal and the Scoundrel Author: Fantasy, Dissent, and neoliberal subjectivity in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, has acquired an impressive critical reputation and acquired a favored role in British culture as a social commentator. This essay attempts to link the pleasures associated with the trilogy with the politics inscribed in them, and consider both in the context of Pullman’s role in the civil society. The essay suggests that The Northern Lights offers pleasures in fantastical and metaphysical possibilities, and social confederacies that potentially offset the affective privations of neoliberalism. These possibilities are set in the context of recent theories of the “enterprise society.” The essay draws attention to a number of discontinuities that unfold as the trilogy progresses, and suggests that these undermine the possibilities inherent in the first novel. These disconti - nuities throw the role of fantasy and alternative universes into question, and reveal the limitations of Pullman’s fiction. The essay considers the limit and scope of Pullman’s political vision, both as a function of his fiction and his public engagement with social issues, and suggests that he exemplifies Raymond Williams’s concept of “bourgeois dissent” in which political critique and a continuing investment in traditional institutions and class hierarchy can be mutually reinforcing.

Allgemeinbildung, Staat und Politik. Zur aktuellen Diskussion um die angelsächsische "liberal education"

In der angelsächsischen analytischen Erziehungsphilosophie wurde ein Konzept allgemeiner Bildung (Liberal education) herausgearbeitet, das den Bildungsanspruch in wissenstheoretischem Rekurs argumentativ zu legitimieren und zu begründen versucht. Dabei geht sie von einem differenzierten Erfahrungs- und Wissensfeld aus, das an öffentliche Standards der Verständigung gebunden ist. Diese Theorie wird an zwei ausgewählten Beispielen geprüft: Einerseits an den US-amerikanischen Debatten um die „cultural literacy" und andererseits an den Auseinandersetzungen um die Einführung des „National Curriculum" in England und Wales. Abschließend wird der Zusammenhang einer wissenstheoretisch fundierten Theorie der Liberal education mit bestimmten politischen Optionen diskutiert. Dabei wird sich zeigen, daß hinsichtlich politischer Zuordnungen dieser Theorie keine systematische Notwendigkeit besteht, und daß das Konzept einer integrierenden Allgemeinbildung in demokratischen, sozialen Staaten unverzichtbar und gleichzeitig nicht beliebig multikulturell ausrichtbar ist. (DIPF/Orig.)

"Natural" disasters as (neo-liberal) opportunity? Discussing post-hurricane Katrina urban regeneration in New Orleans

By providing a wide literature review, post-hurricane Katrina uneven urban regeneration in New Orleans is presented here by framing it within a historical perspective in order to underline how environmental threats too often seem to be not so much “natural” but rather man-made as well as to highlight both the reasons and the ways in which, in post-disaster reconstruction, competitive growth has been valued over equity, by directly benefiting those who were already the most advantaged. The aim is to highlight how environmental disasters can be considered as socially constructed phenomena, as they cannot be seen as a single event but rather as a process made by a series of progressive steps occurring within different spheres, which do not necessarily concern the environment only.

En defensa de una escuela: artículos publicados en El Liberal, seguidos de algunas opiniones de la prensa y de uno inédito En defensa personal

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La di?spora del castillo de cristal: las disputas faccionales y la hiperfragmentaci?n del partido liberal, en medio de la herencia frentenacionalista 1982 - 1990. El caso de Cali

Este documento describe el comportamiento pol?tico de las facciones del Partido Liberal, durante las elecciones en Cali entre 1982 y 1990; en el contexto de la hiperfragmentaci?n (HF) del sistema pol?tico. A trav?s del an?lisis documental de prensa y revistas de actualidad pol?tica, haremos una descripci?n de las facciones liberales oficialistas e independientes que sobresalieron en la pol?tica cale?a, describiendo su interacci?n y algunas de las estrategias implementadas para ocupar cargos tanto en el Partido Liberal, como los cargos ejecutivos y administrativos del pa?s, la regi?n y la ciudad de Cali. Se sugiere que hay una relaci?n entre la fragmentaci?n de los partidos y las cambiantes relaciones entre las facciones del PL, en la medida en que la literatura sobre partidos y sistemas de partidos analiza los momentos puntuales en el que el liberalismo fue fragment?ndose, hasta crearse peque?os grupos en competencia unos con otros por las curules de elecci?n popular.