Resumen El siguiente artículo consiste en un comentario al fragmento póstumo de Walter Benjamin llamado “Kapitalismus als Religion”, que destaca por integrar un fragmento anteriormente apartado por los editores, y porque ha sido interpretado en tanto que hilo de Ariadna de la obra benjaminiana, revisitando textos clave como Kritik zur Gewalt, Traue...
A risk-based reinterpretation of Weber’s ethic of responsibility can resolve core problems of professional ethics (the role of values, the multilevel problem, etc.) and address current issues—such as the social responsibility of professions or the accountability of professionals. From this perspective, professions as organizations and professionals...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
The aim of this article is to highlight and conceptualize key aspects of social closures that impact the German nuclear waste management case. According to the German legislator, the public must be involved in the search for a final repository for high-level radioactive waste. De facto, however, almost the entire population of Germany is excluded. ...
Published in Open Philosophy
This study explores the pivotal concept of “objective possibility” within Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, a concept that has received less attention compared to more prominent ideas such as reification or totality. Lukács frequently refers to “objective possibility” and related terms in essays like “What Is Orthodox Marxism?” and “Class C...
O presente artigo tem com objetivo de apresentar as concepções teóricas de Nicolau Maquiavel, Thomas Hobbes e Max Weber quanto a temas vinculados à natureza do poder político, o papel do povo na política, a melhor forma de governo, dentre outros, com foco aos assuntos relacionados à criação e manutenção do Estado e às formas de regimes de governo. ...
Many scholars have understood conspiracy theories as sense-making mechanisms. Among them, a particular strand further inspected them in parallel with religion and magic. This comparison bears the risk of framing conspiracy theories as irrational interpretations and anachronisms with respect to contemporary ways of explaining reality. This contribut...
Beyond the momentum of the war and the industrial mobilization, the rise of digital managerial and apocalyptic processes is a very long story. In this chapter, the argument is made that, both historically and philosophically, it’s an American story. Indeed, the turn of the 40s and 50s and the rise of digital management are just re-expressions of wh...
The Scandinavian region stands out from the rest of the world regarding its welfare structure. The Scandinavian countries de-commodifies the citizens from the market to a higher degree in relation to other countries. Earlier research on this subject doesn't distinguish the countries from each other, which it needs to do since these countries all ha...
This article begins by showing Max Weber’s interest in Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk and comparing it with the virtual ignorance of Du Bois’s work as a whole in the sociology scholarship produced in Spanish. It then describes Du Bois’s conception of the then-called “Negro problem” as a “social problem” (as Marx did with the “Jewish problem”), a...
Abstract: This study explores the pivotal concept of “objective possibility” within Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, a concept that has received less attention compared to more prominent ideas such as reification or totality. Lukács frequently refers to “objective possibility” and related terms in essays like “What Is Orthodox Marxism?” an...
