María Pía Lara
Biographic Data
| ID | 1395355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Pía Lara |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Pía |
| FAMILY NAME | Lara |
| SIGNATURE | LARA M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6802-6424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen
I will critically explore Arato and Cohen’s work on populism acknowledging areas of agreement while noting gaps in their reasoning particularly regarding the complex relations between capitalism and democracy and the recent erosion of democracy replacing it with authoritarian regimes that are better suited for neoliberal policies
Richard Bernstein and his concept of pragmatic fallibilism
A story of friendship: An homage to Peter Beilharz
Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events: Proceedings of the 42nd International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium
Contemporary deep-reaching changes - whether in financial or real economy, in Europe's political conditions, in the context of scientific theories, in the field of global (environmental) security, or gender relations - are also a challenge to philosophy. The volume comprises cutting-edge scholarly articles from renowned philosophers with various geographical backgrounds and from different philosophical strands. Next to investigating general quest…
The term ‘Populism’ as a combat-concept and a catchword
Following a previous article where I defined how a concept becomes a weapon of ideological wars, this article seeks to clarify why there are semantic connections of the actual concept of ‘populism’ with the semantics of the concept of crisis (illness, destruction of democracy, salvation or condemnation). My key argument is to focus on how actors use the concept of populism on the public sphere with the goal to inspire fear instead of allowing cit…
A conceptual analysis of the term 'populism
In this paper I want to leave behind the failed attempts to think about populism as ideology, strategy, style, or even discourse. I will focus on the 'conceptual battles of politics' and their potential to influence actors to pursue and effect specific ends. Reinhart Koselleck and his ideas about conceptual history will figure prominently in my discussion, as will his concept of asymmetrical combat-concept as a means of unleashing a theoretical a…
Carlos Illades y Teresa Santiago, Estado de guerra: De la guerra sucia a la narcoguerra, México, Ediciones Era, 2014
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On Trendy Fascism
The book Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy (SUNY Press, 2016) by Nancy S. Love is a brave book much needed after the 2016 elections in the United States (US). Leftists a
The Prague colloquium: The heart, spirit, home of critical theorists
Carl Schmitt's Contribution to a Theory of Political Myth
My goal in this essay is to show that myths have played a larger role than we might think in politics and in political theory and that myths are essential to politics. For this purpose I will use Schmitt's theory of myth, since he elaborated his theory with strong interpretations of two different myths: Hobbes's Leviathan and Shakespeare's Hamlet. I will compare Schmitt's interpretations of Hamlet with my own, as doing so will provide a critical …
Es posible construir un puente teórico entre la teoría feminista y las teorías sobre la ecología
Transformación y modificaciones de conceptos emancipativos
Transformaciones y modificaciones de conceptos emancipativos
Postcard From the Periphery: A View From Mexico
Reflective judgment as world disclosure
In this article I deal with Kant's concept of reflective judgment, and recover it through its links to the aesthetic dimension as its fundamental scenario. Then I go on to explain why Hannah Arendt understood this important Kantian connection, and why she thought it would allow her to develop it through a political dimension. Last, having reviewed both Kant and Arendt's contributions to the concept of reflective judgment, I recover my own input t…
The Future of Critical Theory
Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment
Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil , María Pía Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. Drawing on Immanuel Kant's and Hannah Arendt's ideas about reflective …
Why Do We Need to Create a Moral Image of the World
This article deals with our constructed notions of evil and how an historical appraisal takes shape after specific stories and narratives become important objects of public deliberation, historical criticism, and disclosive views of what constitutes the moral harms of human cruelty. I analyze the historical representations of the meaning of evil in specific historical times through narratives that have made important contributions to our historic…
Claudia Card's Atrocity Paradigm
Claudia Card's Atrocity Paradigm
This paper deals with Claudia Card's important contributions to a theory of evil that steps out from traditional models of thinking about this problem (theodicies, metaphysical theories, etc.). Instead, our author seeks to explore important elements from other theorists (such as Kant and Nietzsche) in order to build up her ideas of what she calls the “atrocity paradigm.” This critical essay focuses mainly in the spaces where Card's conclusions ne…
Globalizing Women's Rights: Overcoming the Apartheid
This article deals with the empirical example of how social subjects, in this case women, have appropriated the language of rights in order to demand social inclusion. Since there are many different points of view in feminist theory with regard to how to deal with the idea of women's rights, this article is divided into three sections. In the first section, I focus on how some important normative contents about democracy and rights have already b…
In and Out of Terror: The Vertigo of Secularization
The key concept is “vertigo of secularization.” It relates to the fears that societies experience when understanding the need to ground their political orders as separated from religion. The erosion of values produces vertigos around the world. We need to understand better these kinds of processes because only by doing so can we keep that fear and violence from taking precedence over the hard working tasks of building up a global political commun…
Democracy and Cultural Rights: Is There a New Stage of Citizenship
A Reply to My Critics
My text is written to answer the questions asked at the APA Meeting's presentation of the book Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere by professors María Lugones and Eduardo Mendieta. The answer seeks to clarify that Lugones's infrapolitics position is not so distant from mine. I also address Mendieta's question directed more to the aesthetic domain. There, I seek to show how my position could be taken as a creative effort to ex…
A Reply to My Critics
My text is written to answer the questions asked at the APA Meeting's presentation of the book Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere by professors María Lugones and Eduardo Mendieta. The answer seeks to clarify that Lugones's infrapolitics position is not so distant from mine. I also address Mendieta's question directed more to the aesthetic domain. There, I seek to show how my position could be taken as a creative effort to ex…
The Frail Emergence of Mexico's Democracy: Conquering Public Space
This article offers a new interpretation of Mexico's transition to democracy that differs from the pessimistic and less culturally oriented ones that currently prevail. In the article I develop a normative model, which emphasizes the moral capacities of civil societies and their ability to inspire altruistic actions. I suggest that this approach is not only more compelling philosophically but also more plausible empirically. To demonstrate this, …
A conceptual analysis of the term 'populism
In this paper I want to leave behind the failed attempts to think about populism as ideology, strategy, style, or even discourse. I will focus on the 'conceptual battles of politics' and their potential to influence actors to pursue and effect specific ends. Reinhart Koselleck and his ideas about conceptual history will figure prominently in my discussion, as will his concept of asymmetrical combat-concept as a means of unleashing a theoretical a…
Democracy and Cultural Rights: Is There a New Stage of Citizenship
Reflective judgment as world disclosure
In this article I deal with Kant's concept of reflective judgment, and recover it through its links to the aesthetic dimension as its fundamental scenario. Then I go on to explain why Hannah Arendt understood this important Kantian connection, and why she thought it would allow her to develop it through a political dimension. Last, having reviewed both Kant and Arendt's contributions to the concept of reflective judgment, I recover my own input t…
The term ‘Populism’ as a combat-concept and a catchword
Following a previous article where I defined how a concept becomes a weapon of ideological wars, this article seeks to clarify why there are semantic connections of the actual concept of ‘populism’ with the semantics of the concept of crisis (illness, destruction of democracy, salvation or condemnation). My key argument is to focus on how actors use the concept of populism on the public sphere with the goal to inspire fear instead of allowing cit…
Es posible construir un puente teórico entre la teoría feminista y las teorías sobre la ecología
Transformación y modificaciones de conceptos emancipativos
Transformaciones y modificaciones de conceptos emancipativos
The Future of Critical Theory
Claudia Card's Atrocity Paradigm
This paper deals with Claudia Card's important contributions to a theory of evil that steps out from traditional models of thinking about this problem (theodicies, metaphysical theories, etc.). Instead, our author seeks to explore important elements from other theorists (such as Kant and Nietzsche) in order to build up her ideas of what she calls the “atrocity paradigm.” This critical essay focuses mainly in the spaces where Card's conclusions ne…
In and Out of Terror: The Vertigo of Secularization
The key concept is “vertigo of secularization.” It relates to the fears that societies experience when understanding the need to ground their political orders as separated from religion. The erosion of values produces vertigos around the world. We need to understand better these kinds of processes because only by doing so can we keep that fear and violence from taking precedence over the hard working tasks of building up a global political commun…
La identidad social en Habermas: Entre El Consenso Y La Alteridad
La identidad social en Habermas: Entre El Consenso Y La Alteridad
Reconocernos en la modernidad
Reconocernos en la modernidad
Pornografía, feminismo y libertad
Pornografía, feminismo y libertad
Albrecht Wellmer: Between spheres of validity
L'A. propose une nouvelle interpretation des oeuvres d'A. Wellmer a la lumiere de sa critique et de son heritage d'Habermas et d'Adorno. L'A. insiste sur l'interet qu'il porte a l'originalite des possibilites de l'esthetique d'Adorno, liee a la dimension morale de l'ethique du discours, dans une sorte de relation dialogique propre a traiter du sujet moral, de l'autonomie et de l'authenticite, de la culture democratique
Honneth’s New Critical Theory of Recognition
Axel Honneth’s The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts represents at once an intriguing and revealing turn in the post-Habermasian tradition of the Frankfurt School, an important and original development in critical social theory more generally understood, and an ambitious and stimulating, if still inadequate
El feminismo como modelo ilocucionario
El feminismo como modelo ilocucionario
The Frail Emergence of Mexico's Democracy: Conquering Public Space
This article offers a new interpretation of Mexico's transition to democracy that differs from the pessimistic and less culturally oriented ones that currently prevail. In the article I develop a normative model, which emphasizes the moral capacities of civil societies and their ability to inspire altruistic actions. I suggest that this approach is not only more compelling philosophically but also more plausible empirically. To demonstrate this, …
A Reply to My Critics
My text is written to answer the questions asked at the APA Meeting's presentation of the book Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere by professors María Lugones and Eduardo Mendieta. The answer seeks to clarify that Lugones's infrapolitics position is not so distant from mine. I also address Mendieta's question directed more to the aesthetic domain. There, I seek to show how my position could be taken as a creative effort to ex…
A Reply to My Critics
My text is written to answer the questions asked at the APA Meeting's presentation of the book Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere by professors María Lugones and Eduardo Mendieta. The answer seeks to clarify that Lugones's infrapolitics position is not so distant from mine. I also address Mendieta's question directed more to the aesthetic domain. There, I seek to show how my position could be taken as a creative effort to ex…
Democracy and Cultural Rights: Is There a New Stage of Citizenship
In and Out of Terror: The Vertigo of Secularization
The key concept is “vertigo of secularization.” It relates to the fears that societies experience when understanding the need to ground their political orders as separated from religion. The erosion of values produces vertigos around the world. We need to understand better these kinds of processes because only by doing so can we keep that fear and violence from taking precedence over the hard working tasks of building up a global political commun…
Claudia Card's Atrocity Paradigm
Claudia Card's Atrocity Paradigm
This paper deals with Claudia Card's important contributions to a theory of evil that steps out from traditional models of thinking about this problem (theodicies, metaphysical theories, etc.). Instead, our author seeks to explore important elements from other theorists (such as Kant and Nietzsche) in order to build up her ideas of what she calls the “atrocity paradigm.” This critical essay focuses mainly in the spaces where Card's conclusions ne…
Globalizing Women's Rights: Overcoming the Apartheid
This article deals with the empirical example of how social subjects, in this case women, have appropriated the language of rights in order to demand social inclusion. Since there are many different points of view in feminist theory with regard to how to deal with the idea of women's rights, this article is divided into three sections. In the first section, I focus on how some important normative contents about democracy and rights have already b…
Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment
Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil , María Pía Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. Drawing on Immanuel Kant's and Hannah Arendt's ideas about reflective …
Why Do We Need to Create a Moral Image of the World
This article deals with our constructed notions of evil and how an historical appraisal takes shape after specific stories and narratives become important objects of public deliberation, historical criticism, and disclosive views of what constitutes the moral harms of human cruelty. I analyze the historical representations of the meaning of evil in specific historical times through narratives that have made important contributions to our historic…
Reflective judgment as world disclosure
In this article I deal with Kant's concept of reflective judgment, and recover it through its links to the aesthetic dimension as its fundamental scenario. Then I go on to explain why Hannah Arendt understood this important Kantian connection, and why she thought it would allow her to develop it through a political dimension. Last, having reviewed both Kant and Arendt's contributions to the concept of reflective judgment, I recover my own input t…
The Future of Critical Theory
Postcard From the Periphery: A View From Mexico
Transformación y modificaciones de conceptos emancipativos
Transformaciones y modificaciones de conceptos emancipativos
Es posible construir un puente teórico entre la teoría feminista y las teorías sobre la ecología
Carlos Illades y Teresa Santiago, Estado de guerra: De la guerra sucia a la narcoguerra, México, Ediciones Era, 2014
.
On Trendy Fascism
The book Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy (SUNY Press, 2016) by Nancy S. Love is a brave book much needed after the 2016 elections in the United States (US). Leftists a
The Prague colloquium: The heart, spirit, home of critical theorists
Carl Schmitt's Contribution to a Theory of Political Myth
My goal in this essay is to show that myths have played a larger role than we might think in politics and in political theory and that myths are essential to politics. For this purpose I will use Schmitt's theory of myth, since he elaborated his theory with strong interpretations of two different myths: Hobbes's Leviathan and Shakespeare's Hamlet. I will compare Schmitt's interpretations of Hamlet with my own, as doing so will provide a critical …
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Democracy (7 works)