Browsing by Autor "Carlos Manrique"

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(Com)partilhando o segredo, entre a lei e a ficção (a literatura e o político no pensamento de Jacques Derrida)
(2010) Carlos Manrique
El discurso de los movimientos sociales como lugar para pensar el conflicto político
(2017) Carlos Manrique
Este texto elabora un análisis metodológico y político de lo que implica pensar el discurso de los movimientos sociales en Colombia como <em>lugar</em> para comprender el conflicto político (en su pluralidad y heterogeneidad). Ello implica comenzar por una reflexión sobre lo que está juego en la política del lenguaje en la coyuntura histórica de lo que se ha dado en llamar la <em>posverdad</em>. Ante el reto de esta coyuntura, se propone la perspectiva de una ontología de lo político de corte posestructuralista como vía para articular otros modos de comprender y ejercitar la veracidad y la responsabilidad en las prácticas del lenguaje. Siguiendo una relectura de la polémica dirigida por Habermas en contra de Foucault, y luego una interpretación de la lectura de Marx elaborada por Derrida, se propone una figura de la promesa, inseparable de la historicidad del lenguaje, como clave para pensar otros modos de la veracidad y la responsabilidad ético-política (más allá de las figuras metafísicas de la verdad como adecuación entre lenguaje y realidad, y de la ética como soberanía de un sujeto transparente ante sí sobre los efectos de sus palabras y acciones). Es desde esta otra figura de la promesa como configuradora de lo político, que se define la necesidad de una práctica teórico-filosófica del pensar-con las formas de enunciación (y de agencia) de los movimientos y colectivos populares.
Rethinking the Relation between Science and Religion: Some Epistemological and Political Implications
(Universidad de Los Andes, 2015) Mauricio Nieto Olarte; Franklin I. Gamwell; Iranzo Dosdad Ángela; Carlos Manrique
Interview of In contemporary western societies we have become used to thinking of the relation between “science” and “religion” (or between “faith” and “reason”) in disjunctive terms, assuming a necessary opposition and/or the overcoming of one of them by the other (science as an understanding of the world necessarily opposed to religious beliefs and practices, one which tends historically to overcome the latter in the progress of civilization). An example of this pervasive assumption is the...
Sharing the Secret: Between Law and Fiction (Literature and Politics in the Thought of Jacques Derrida)
(2010) Carlos Manrique
To understand Derrida’s conception of the relationship between literature and politics, one needs to begin with his reflection on the connection between the production of meaning in language, on the one hand, and the demarcation of borders in socio-political space, on the other. For Derrida, literature is a specific kind of writing that, by intensifying the limits of meaning, suspends or de-stabilizes the socio-political borders erected by all institutional normativity. This article reflects on the mutual entanglement, thus emphasized by Derrida, between a certain idea of “literature” and a certain idea of “democracy.” What is at stake here is the possibility of configuring the political community by other means. This possibility implies the challenge of re-thinking the exercise of freedom and the affirmation of an unrestricted universality, no longer in the transparency of a fully-accountable subject or in the space of intelligibility of discursive rationality, as we are used to thinking about them. But rather, it is a freedom associated with an irreducible opacity of the subject, and a universality associated with an instance of excess (the “secret’), which dislocates the structure of discursive meaning. By pointing out suggestive points of convergence between several late Kantian texts and some works by Derrida on the apophatic writing of medieval mysticism, the article attempts to show how Derrida’s meditation on the political function of literature prompts us to question and de-stabilize the opposition between “Enlightenment” and “mysticism”, and a series of dichotomies tied the latter that have become dogmatic in our understanding of politics.
THE DISPLACEMENT IN DERRIDA’S CONCEPT OF THE “PERFORMATIVE”: FROM THE ITERABILITY OF WRITING TO THE SINGULARITY OF JUSTICE
(2012) Carlos Manrique
This paper retraces two crucial displacements in the history of the notion of the “performative” in Derrida’s thought, and the effects of this notion in his attempt to rethink the contours of ethical and political action, and of the “subject” of this action. First, Judith Butler’s distinctive appropriation of the notion of “iterability” employed by Derrida to describe the performative force of writing, and of language in general. And second, Derrida’s own re-modulation of the notion of the “performative”, in his late reflections on the aporetic structure of “decision” through which he attempts to reflect on the breach between “justice” and “normativity”. Through an examination of the differences at stake in these two possible trajectories for thinking the “performativity” of language and selfhood the paper tries to show, first, the connection between Derrida’s early analysis of “writing” and his late reflections on the gap between “justice” and normativity; and second, it attempts in a rather preliminary way to understand why Derrida, in his attempt to re-think ethical and political action in this way, re-opens a certain “religious” register constitutive of this action, a register, we suggest, connected to the problem of affectivity.
Trayectorias del relativismo moderno y su ontología política: entre la posverdad y la hiperverdad
(Pontifical Xavierian University, 2019) Carlos Manrique
Este artículo problematiza el difundido diagnóstico sobre la relación entre política y verdad, o política y mentira, que se moviliza con el vocablo posverdad. Primero, se cuestiona la presunta novedad histórica que este pretende identificar, recordando cómo la filosofía política en Occidente ha estado atravesada por una ansiedad frente a la fuerza amenazante de un discurso huérfano y errante que circula sin conciencia y sin referente. Segundo, se indican las limitaciones del reproche en relación con la retirada de la razón y la veracidad de la política, y su falla en atender a cómo, desplazándonos del campo de la política electoral al de la técnica gubernamental, opera hoy una producción de la verdad de lo social en un discurso tecnocientífico hegemónico. Tercero, se muestra que hay una coherencia estructural entre la técnica gubernamental de la hiperverdad y el inescrupoloso interés estratégico en la realpolitik de la política electoral, coherencia anclada en las premisas ontológicas y epistémicas de la concepción moderna de lo político. Finalmente, se destaca la potencia crítica que ante este panorama nos ofrece aún el legado del posestructuralismo.