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Ideology and Power in the 21st Century

2025-02-11T18:38:50+00:00

This article offers a philosophical-critical analysis of the concept of ideology in the 21st century, drawing on the contributions of Hannah Arendt, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, and Terry Eagleton. Through a hermeneutic and comparative methodology, ideology is examined as a symbolic, narrative, and performative structure that shapes experience, subjectivity, and power. It is argued that ideology not only conceals reality but actively produces it through normative frameworks and culturally internalized fictions. The article is structured in three sections: a theoretical reconstruction of the concept, an analysis of its operation in contemporary contexts (such as populism, social media, and post-truth), and a discussion of its limits and possibilities for transformation. It concludes that a philosophical critique of ideology—far from being a purely theoretical exercise—is essential for expanding the margins of agency, plurality, and justice within current democratic frameworks.

The Dialogues of Ricoeurian Philosophy in Colombia

2025-02-26T17:17:28+00:00

The thought of Paul Ricoeur has undoubtedly gained strength and vitality within Colombian philosophy over the past century, becoming integrated into various academic dialogues and reflective discourses. However, the lack of research aimed at opening new horizons or identifying potential lines of inquiry remains evident. This documentary exploration adopts a state-of-the-art methodological approach with a hermeneutic emphasis, focusing on primary concepts within Ricoeurian philosophy such as the philosophy of the will, hermeneutics, and the hermeneutics of the self. Also, through a dialogical engagement with Colombian philosophy, we examine the contributions that Colombian thinkers have made to Ricoeurs thought. Finally, we seek to clarify possible fields of action regarding these initial taxonomies, suggesting areas where further reflection could emerge around the thought of this French philosopher.

Metaphysics and Meaning in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

2025-02-19T12:57:40+00:00

In statement 6.54 of the Tractatus, Wittgenstein casts the grounds (the well-known metaphor of the stairs) on which certain porpositions are considered absurd and the concept of meaning is determined as a figurative expression of language. But if we throw away the stairs, we throw away the basis for discerning what is absurd. The first part of this paper attempts to address this problem, while the second part presents two readings (Diamond and Conant, on the one hand, and Hacker, on the other), which are alternatives for overcoming this problem and which, even so, have difficulties. For this reason, a third reading is proposed which aims to vindicate the role of metaphysics in Wittgenstein's thought. Such a reading allows us to think in a broader sense than the one proposed in the Tractatus, in a metaphorical sense that language constructs as images and that functions in the field of ethics.

Formación docente para el siglo XXI

2025-02-28T18:29:22+00:00

This article aims to show the importance of otherness in the training of new teachers. to achieve this, we start from Lévinas' ethics, in order to show how this ethical perspective can generate a change in the vision of teachers, facilitating the understanding and understanding of students, recognizing the other as a fundamental being. The importance of understanding and accepting the vulnerability, fragility, fears and diverse spaces of the other is underlined; since it is from this recognition that one becomes aware of oneself and of the other, which is evident in the welcome. This welcome implies welcoming, recognizing the importance of the other and, from this, generating an approach to the student. In this relationship, education is revealed as a fundamental issue if it is aimed at recognizing and revealing the fragility and vulnerability of the other (the learner) in his or her entirety.

“Intensified” Studies of an Art-investigation

2025-03-06T14:31:48+00:00

This essay deals about regimes of practices that some artists adopt when they reside outside their usual places. In these decontextualized reside, they share with other people a creative process to form a transversal work mechanism whose possibilities, flows and forms are permanently updated and sustain their work in dialogue with momentary groups. Residing here and there sharing art-life segments constitutes a work format that many art residencies currently develop. In this article, various nuances of residence are reviewed through a methodological proposal of art-research whose interdisciplinary incursion "intensifies" (Viveiros de Castro) studies on sixteenth-century authors (Boucheron), with the aim of accounting for the timelessness of certain difficulties that artists, and their works in progress, go through for the maintenance of authorial autonomy when, in dissent to what has been instituted (Tatián) are crossed by the fear of helplessness (Safatle). The discussion on the professional status of the artist and authorial autonomy is dealt in many art residencies, spaces of help that allow contemporary arguments to be raised about art-life and the inseparable relationship with the socio-political issues that cross it (Heinich, Bourdieu).

Λόγος made Word

2025-02-19T12:50:51+00:00

In this article I will expose a philosophical and linguistic analysis with some allusions to Schopenhauer, about this Bible verse of Evangelium of Juan when the beloved apostle wrote: “Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶθεός ἦν ὁ λόγος”. Beyond a religious interpretation that cab be given to this passage, this bible verse shows us an aspect very important about philosophical language in a Christological dimension: both ἀρχῇ and λόγος have a longue history on the philosophy tradition. On this way, I will expose some ideas about these two philosophical and religious concepts with nuances in what tradition has supported about the broad meaning of both. The Christological dimension that has been attributed to thus biblical passage will also be presented indirectly. The article will be divided into two fundamental parts: the first one will address the Logos as a discursive faculty in man, and the second one, as an original consciousness [of all creation]. This will lead us to conclude that the Logos can be interpreted in a Christological sense, linked to religiosity, and in a philosophical sense insofar as it is linked to the ancient commentaries of the pre-Socratics regarding the cosmic origin of the world.