THE RISE AND FALL OF RATIONAL CONTROL : THE HISTORY OF MODERN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

THE RISE AND FALL OF RATIONAL CONTROL : THE HISTORY OF MODERN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

MANSFIELD, HARVEY C.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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History, politics & society
ISBN:
978-0-674-29885-9
Páginas:
336
Encuadernación:
Hardback

Un renombrado erudito traza la evolución de la filosofía política moderna. El auge y la caída del control racional es una audaz interpretación de siglos de revoluciones intelectuales. Basado en el

legendario curso de Harvey C. Mansfield en Harvard, impartido durante décadas ante aulas cautivadas, este volumen es a la vez una obra grandiosa de ideas y una esclarecedora reflexión sobre el liberalismo, su declive y la posibilidad de su renovación. Mansfield sitúa el nacimiento de la filosofía política moderna en la obra de Nicolás Maquiavelo, el primero en afirmar que el objetivo de la política no es alcanzar ideales ilusorios de justicia o virtud —como lo hacían los antiguos—, sino manipular los hechos crudos del mundo al servicio de los intereses. Aquí, el control racional, libre del orden divino, es la clave para lograr el orden moderno, que puede liberar a los humanos de la esclavitud y el conflicto.

Hobbes y Locke desarrollan posteriormente la idea moderna de Maquiavelo, sentando las bases del liberalismo. Luego llega la primera crisis en la figura de Rousseau, quien introduce el cambio histórico en la propia idea de razón, que se supone que evoluciona. Tras Rousseau, la historia cobra protagonismo, como se observa en Kant, Marx y Hegel.

La segunda crisis de la modernidad llega con Nietzsche, quien pone en duda la razón misma. Desde entonces, el pensamiento político se ha estancado en el desierto del posmodernismo, donde las necesidades de Maquiavelo se ven reemplazadas por una subjetividad desvanecida. Al rastrear el auge y la caída del control racional, Mansfield se pregunta hacia dónde nos dirigimos. ¿

Podemos superar nuestra inquietud ante lo moderno, o deberíamos aspirar a regresar de alguna manera a lo que existía antes?

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