Abstract

MIRANDA REDONDO, Rafael. State of the autonomy and essentialization of identity project. Notes on Latin America based on Castoriadis. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2013, vol.8, n.16, pp.13-55. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2013.16.72.

This article assesses the left-wing political culture, particularly in Latin America, in light of the essentialization of identity. The author reports what he considers the impossibility of sustaining, with credibility, the claim to autonomy based on the essentialization of identity. He bases this argument on Castoriadis’ notion of alterity which appears in his written and institutional work in favor of autonomy. This trajectory passes through the multiple meanings of the notion of autonomy, the nonrandom blend of Marxism and theology in the region’s institutional context, the embodiment of these sources into a discourse that has been recycled, thanks to post-modernism and the French Theory, and, with the complicity of captive populations, culminates in a mechanism led by experts who both exercise and go counter to the projected autonomous society.

Keywords : identity; alterity; captive populations; self-limitation.

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