Arce, Rafael
(Universidad Nacional del Litoral, )
representación de lo que aún no lo tiene; 3) su pregnancia en el imaginario literario, artístico y cultural, tanto en obras modernas como contemporáneas. El proyecto propone una perspectiva transdisciplinar. Por un lado, investigadores que trabajan en el área de...
The project is framed in post-foundational political thought and focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. To do this, it takes as its starting point the characterization of the post-foundational field of thought as formulated by Oliver Marchant. In this framework, a set of problems posed by Derrida and Foucault will be addressed that allow us to think about burning political and ethical questions in our contemporary world. On the one hand, the notion of "hospitality", which the last phase of Derrida's thinking coined to think problems related to otherness, the foreign and the being-with. On the other hand, the notion of "biopolitics", which Foucault elaborates to examine historical, social, epistemic and political determinations in the context of liberal capitalism. This double interrogation will allow us to think about the problem of "alterity" in our contemporary world, embodied in three key figures: animality, feminisms and refugees. The inquiry of these figures of alterity will be highly productive due to: 1) its position in the margins of the readability orders; 2) its power to challenge and dispute new political spaces in a democracy always open to the representation of what does not yet have it; 3) its importance in the literary, artistic and cultural imaginary, both in modern and contemporary works.The project proposes a transdisciplinary perspective. On the one hand, researchers working in the field of political theory and social theory. On the other hand, researchers who work in the field of literary and aesthetic studies. The convergence of the two groups take place in the following points: 1) a common philosophical theoretical framework, which is based on post-foundational French thought; 2) a common interest in thinking about the political dimension of phenomena, be they social or aesthetic and literary; 3) a necessary disciplinary intersection, insofar as the figurations of alterity find their way of expression both in historical-social phenomena and in their artistic and cultural manifestations....