Biolegitimidad y políticas de la vida
It is about rethinking the tension legality-legitimacy in democratic societies and how to advance in the constitution of a public reason that takes charge of political decisions that have to do with life and its reproduction.The question is the consideration of a displacement in that tension in whic...
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2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/fichas.php?idobjeto=14346 |
| Sumario: | It is about rethinking the tension legality-legitimacy in democratic societies and how to advance in the constitution of a public reason that takes charge of political decisions that have to do with life and its reproduction.The question is the consideration of a displacement in that tension in which the "place" of legitimacy "runs" from legality to the margin or exteriority of the system, externality in which the particular or difference not only establish legitimacy but a universality concrete, which recognizes the political as a social transformation and life as a criterion of truth. Recognizing life as a criterion of rationality means recovering the notion of human life as an original event and a source of meaning. Just as re-thinking the notion of a body in tension with that of life allows us to approach the problem of the body from the perspective of a legitimacy constructed from the margins of the system, recognizing the legal paradox of the states of exception and of the subjects inside / outside of the law. Thinking from the category of biolegitimacy means moving from the "rules of the game" to what is at stake in it: life reduced to bare life or precarious life.We propose that biolegitimacy opens a space beyond biopolitics: that of the politics of life that, in a movement of re-politicization of the world, suppose a displacement of political forms to the subject of politics, understanding this matter precisely to life, the body and the moral choices that all politics assumes. In our Western societies, at the base of the recognition of what is institutionalized as debt or guilt, there is a crossing between the moral, the political, the economic and the legal.We propose then to re-think the question of legitimacy by genealogically analyzing the continuities between punitive and moral practices in our Western societies and analyzing the institutionalization of punishment in law. That is to say, an analysis of punishment as a problem and not as a solution, in what could be considered a punitive moment / punitive turn, which can not be resolved in our societies only on the level of law. |
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