Politics in Aricó, del Barco and Laclau. Theory and critique in the Argentinean Post-Marxist debate of the eighties

Authors

  • Eugenia Fraga Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

Keywords:

Critique, theory, politics, crisis, practice

Abstract

In the present paper we will search into the ways in which different Argentinean Post-Marxism authors have reflected upon and tried to solve the classical dilemma between political theory and practice during the eighties, parting from the notion of critique. So, by analyzing the perspectives of Oscar del Barco, José Aricó and Ernesto Laclau, we observe that the critical theory for the present of Latin America inherits Marxist and Poststructuralist trends that come from semiotic and psychoanalytic theories. It also entails a concern for history, intellect and imagination.

Author Biography

Eugenia Fraga, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

Dr. in Social Sciences. Postdoctoral scholar CONICET. University teaching in Systematic Sociology, Universidad de Buenos Aires (FSOC-UBA). Member of the Study Group about problems and concepts of Social Theory in the Research Insitute Gino Germani (IIGG).

Published

2019-05-15

How to Cite

Fraga, E. (2019). Politics in Aricó, del Barco and Laclau. Theory and critique in the Argentinean Post-Marxist debate of the eighties. Journal of Research of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(15), 115-136. Retrieved from //rihumso.unlam.edu.ar/index.php/humanidades/article/view/175

Issue

No. 15 (2019)

Section

Philosophy, Politics and Economy

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