The Political Practice and its Subjects in of New Critical Theories: Complicities and Points of Adversity
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https://doi.org/10.52459/josstt1261221Keywords:
New Critical Theory, Social Classes, Political Subjects, Social Transformation, Capitalism, StateAbstract
These four theoretical bets on the “multitude” (Hardt and Negri), on the political subject as fidelity to an event (Badiou), on the “people” as a hegemonic interaction of heterogeneous demands (Laclau and Mouffe), on the political subject as an emergent subject of an egalitarian irruption (Rancière), illustrate the seek for new political subjectivities after abandoning the Marxist thesis that gives a decisive role to the working-class in the process of social transformation. Apart from this binding nucleus, they present divergences that place the question about the subject of emancipation in a field of confrontations, and bifurcation points.
This work aims at delimiting the lines of combat, voices of consent and dissent found in these new critical theories regarding the connection between political subjectivity, and economic relations, the issue of the strategy, the nationalism/internationalism dilemma and the disjunction between statism and anti-statism.
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Inda, Graciela 2021. "The Political Practice and its Subjects in of New Critical Theories: Complicities and Points of Adversity" Journal of Social Sciences: Transformations & Transitions (JOSSTT) 1(02):06. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52459/josstt1261221
About the Author, Dr. Graciela Inda
Degree in sociology. Master in Political and Social Sciences (FLACSO). Doctor in Political and Social Sciences (National University Of Cuyo, Argentina - UNCuyo). Professor of Systematic Sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (UNCuyo). CONICET (Consejo Nacional De Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas) Researcher (IMESC / IDEHESI / Mendoza Node). Project Director “State, Subjects and Politics in Neoliberal Capitalism” (UNCuyo). Member of the Interdisciplinary Working Group “Social theory and Latin American reality” (CLACSO/ASDI). Research line: State and political subjects in Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary Critical Theories. Author of numerous articles in international journals.
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