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This text seeks to highlight the originality of Vincent Bloch's book, Cuba. Une révolution, an interdisciplinary investigation that integrates history, historiography, political philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology into a cohesive analysis. Viewing revolution as the quintessential political phenomenon, the author aims to conceptualize it (drawing from philosophy and political theory) and examine it (through historical events and their narratives) to uncover the nature of the political regime established in Cuba by Una revolución. Following an exhaustive study, the author defines this regime as totalitarian. Penser le politique, penser la révolution Il s´agit de signaler l’originalité du livre de Vincent Bloch, Cuba Une révolution. Car il s’agit d’une recherche interdisciplinaire qui combine l’histoire, l’historiographie, la science politique, la science politique, la sociologie et l’anthropologie dans une même analyse. Le phénomène politique par excellence qui est la Révolution, fait l´objet d´une recherche, dans laquelle son auteur se propose d´en penser (à partir de la philosophie et de la théorie politique), et d’étudier la nature du régime qui à Cuba surgit après une révolution. Régime conçu comme totalitaire, et dont sa définition n’est pas formulée a priori par Bloch, mais elle est le résultat d’une enquête de terrain, qui en même temps discute des idées cruciales de Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron et Claude Lefort sur le totalitarisme. Pensar o Politico, pensar a Revolução Esta resenha busca dar a originalidade do livro de Vincent Bloch, Cuba Une Révolution. Trata-se de uma investigação interdisciplinar que combina a história, a historiografia, a Filosofia política, a ciência política, a sociologia e a antropologia numa mesma análise. Sendo a Revolução o fenômeno político por excelência, o autor se propõe a pensar (a partir da filosofia e teoria política) e indagar a natureza do regime político que em Cuba funda Uma revolução. Regime que se adverte totalitário, e cuja definição não é formulada a priori por Bloch, mas que é o resultado de uma investigação empírica, que ao mesmo tempo discute idéias cruciais de Hannah Arendt, Raymond Arond e Claude Lefort sobre o totalitarismo. Se busca dar a conocer la originalidad del libro de Vincent Bloch, Cuba. Une révolution, una investigación interdisciplinaria que combina la historia, la historiografía, la filosofía política, la ciencia política, la sociología y la antropología en un mismo análisis. Al ser la Revolución el fenómeno político por excelencia, el autor se propone pensar (a partir de la filosofía y la teoría política) e indagar (a través de los hechos y su narrativa) la naturaleza del régimen político que en Cuba funda Una revolución, y que, después de un estudio exhaustivo, el autor define como totalitario.

Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But inPhilosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows people to survive and pursue their goals. To understand politics is to understand the powers, motives, and concepts that people have and that shape how they deal with the problems they face in their particular historical situations. Philosophy and Real Politicsboth outlines a historically oriented, realistic political philosophy and criticizes liberal political philosophies based on abstract conceptions of rights and justice. The book is a trenchant critique of established ways of thought and a provocative call for change.

The author presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in Radical Enlightenment, and now focusing his attention on the first half of the 18th century, he returns to the original sources to offer a new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought. The author traces many of the core principles of Western modernity to their roots in the social, political, and philosophical ferment of this period: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression. He emphasizes the dual character of the Enlightenment and the bitter struggle between, on the one hand, a generally dominant, anti-democratic mainstream, supporting the monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical authority, and on the other a largely repressed democratic, republican, and ‘materialist’ radical fringe. He also contends that the supposedly separate French, British, German, Dutch, and Italian enlightenments interacted to such a degree that their study in isolation gives a hopelessly distorted picture.

These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains how the powers of just institutions are limited by rights such as freedom of expression, and considers why these limits should be respected even when it seems that better results could be achieved by violating them. Other topics which are explored include voluntariness and consent, freedom of expression, tolerance, punishment, and human rights. The collection includes the classic essays 'Preference and Urgency', 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression', and 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism', as well as a number of other essays that have hitherto not been easily accessible. It will be essential reading for all those studying these topics from the perspective of political philosophy, politics, and law.

Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no expertise? Many theories of democracy answer by appealing to the intrinsic value of democratic procedure, leaving aside whether it makes good decisions. In Democratic Authority, David Estlund offers a groundbreaking alternative based on the idea that democratic authority and legitimacy must depend partly on democracy's tendency to make good decisions. Just as with verdicts in jury trials, Estlund argues, the authority and legitimacy of a political decision does not depend on the particular decision being good or correct. But the \"epistemic value\" of the procedure--the degree to which it can generally be accepted as tending toward a good decision--is nevertheless crucial. Yet if good decisions were all that mattered, one might wonder why those who know best shouldn't simply rule.

El propósito del artículo es analizarla educación como espacio de aparición corfigurador de sujetos políticos para una cultura democrática. Es producto de una investigación de corte documental y cualitativa que utilizó el método hermenéutica para el abordaje de las categorías de análisis derivadas de fuentes primarias y secundarias sometidas al análisis de contenido. En él se evidencia que el ejercicio pleno de la ciudadanía solo es posible en la medida en que los individuos gocen de libertades para la deliberación, la crítica y la toma de decisiones, para romper con el paradigma de una educación como fabricación. Se concluye que el sujeto que se educa no es un ser atomizado sin capacidad y posibilidad de acción y discurso y que, por tanto, la «fera educativa debe ser pensada como espacio de aparición en su sentido arendtiano y como tal,farmador de sujetos políticos capaces de juicio, para una cultura democrática que impida el retorno de cualquier tipo de totalitarismo dentro de los regímenes democráticos.

Plato is the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of ancient philosophy, offers a lucid and accessible guide to Plato’ s political thought, enormously influential and much discussed in the modern world as well as the ancient. Schofield discusses Plato’ s ideas on education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, and ideological uses of religion.

Reseña de SOTO CARRASCO, David. (2023). Filosofía, política y ética. Claves conceptuales para comprender el presente. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch.

This new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include 55 chapters across two volumes written by some of today's most distinguished scholars. * New contributors include some of today's most distinguished scholars, among them Thomas Pogge, Charles Beitz, and Michael Doyle * Provides in-depth coverage of contemporary philosophical debate in all major related disciplines, such as economics, history, law, political science, international relations and sociology * Presents analysis of key political ideologies, including new chapters on Cosmopolitanism and Fundamentalism * Includes detailed discussions of major concepts in political philosophy, including virtue, power, human rights, and just war

In recent years a set of new ‘postempiricist’ approaches to public policy, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models in policy analysis. In this book, Frank Fischer brings together this work for the first time and critically examines its implications for the field of public policy studies. He describes the theoretical, methodological and political dimensions of this emerging approach to policy research. The book includes a discussion of the social construction of policy problems, the role of interpretation and narrative analysis in policy inquiry, the dialectics of policy argumentation, and the uses of participatory policy analysis. After an introductory chapter, ten further chapters are arranged in four parts: Part I, Public Policy and the Discursive Construction of Reality (two chapters), introduces the re-emergence of interest in ideas and discourse. It then turns to the postempiricist or constructionist view of social reality, presenting public policy as a discursive construct that turns on multiple interpretations. Part II, Public Policy as Discursive Politics (two chapters), examines more specifically the nature of discursive politics and discourse theory and illustrates through a particular disciplinary debate the theoretical, methodological, and political implications of such a conceptual reframing of policy inquiry. Part III, Discursive Policy Inquiry: Resituating Empirical Analysis (four chapters), offers a postempiricist methodology for policy inquiry based on the logic of practical discourse, and explores specific methodological perspectives pertinent to such an orientation, in particular the role of interpretation in policy analysis, narrative policy analysis, and the dialectics of policy argumentation. Part IV, Deliberative Governance (two chapters), discusses the participatory implications of such a method and the role of the policy analyst as facilitator of citizen deliberation .