Humberto Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Humberto Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Humberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Convergent futures
The present article traces the mastering of time as a demand for controlling the future within the onset of social thought, addressing the treatment of time by modern institutions to demonstrate the future-making process they deploy. Based on the former, it explores the acceleration theorizing as a milestone example of time mastery, along with the seemingly contrary claims of deceleration. The article asserts that, despite their apparent differen…
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy
In his six years as president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed to be bringing genuine democracy to Mexico. Although his anti-poverty programs proved effective, his transformation of the political system diminished pluralism while building up the dominance of his Morena party, which he continues to lead since leaving office. He also gave the military an expanded role in domestic tasks such as internal security and infrastructure management, cr…
The Mexican Model
In a world increasingly overtaken by right-wing populism, Mexico is a rare case where a progressive government has remained in control through mul-tiple elections and made solid advances. Conservative parties have mostly vanished from the political landscape, while Morena, the ruling left-wing party, holds a supermajority in Congress, governs twenty-three of thirty-two states, and has led the country under two presidents. Current president Claudi…
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Jean Robert
La obra de Jean Robert como pensador, activista y "arquitecto desprofesionalizado", se puede concebir como una serie de derivaciones del acto de caminar -practicarlo, pensarlo, describirlo, teorizarlo-, y también creando las condiciones en las que más y más personas puedan ejercerlo. En este artículo, se rastrea la genealogía del acto de caminar como gesto ético y estético y también en su dimensión política, y se reflexiona acerca de cómo éste co…
Sobre Olivier , CompagnonCamille Foulard, Guillemette Martin, María Inés Tato (coords.), La Gran Guerra en América Latina
El acontecimiento entre el presente y la historia
Los planteamientos de Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht y François Hartog sobre la crisis del historicismo y la instauración del "presentismo" -un régimen de relación con el tiempo basado en la experiencia del presente- han ocupado un lugar central en las discusiones recientes sobre la historia. El presentismo ha convivido con otro discurso acerca del tiempo histórico: el del "retorno del acontecimiento", al que han aportado autores como Alain Badiou y Slavo…
Ernst Jünger y el instante de crisis
La nocion de instante (el momento presente, el ahora) es una de las principales categorias para analizar la experiencia del tiempo en la modernidad. Por su vinculo con el fenomeno de “lo repentino”, el instante se revela como un concepto privilegiado para explorar las experiencias de crisis y ruptura historica. El autor aleman Ernst Junger (1895-1998) ofrece en su produccion literaria de los anos de la Republica de Weimar —las memorias de su expe…
When Figuring Out London Bombers, Remember Danny Pearl's Killer ‐ Fall 2005
El acontecimiento entre el presente y la historia
Los planteamientos de Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht y François Hartog sobre la crisis del historicismo y la instauración del "presentismo" -un régimen de relación con el tiempo basado en la experiencia del presente- han ocupado un lugar central en las discusiones recientes sobre la historia. El presentismo ha convivido con otro discurso acerca del tiempo histórico: el del "retorno del acontecimiento", al que han aportado autores como Alain Badiou y Slavo…
When Figuring Out London Bombers, Remember Danny Pearl's Killer ‐ Fall 2005
Ernst Jünger y el instante de crisis
La nocion de instante (el momento presente, el ahora) es una de las principales categorias para analizar la experiencia del tiempo en la modernidad. Por su vinculo con el fenomeno de “lo repentino”, el instante se revela como un concepto privilegiado para explorar las experiencias de crisis y ruptura historica. El autor aleman Ernst Junger (1895-1998) ofrece en su produccion literaria de los anos de la Republica de Weimar —las memorias de su expe…
El acontecimiento entre el presente y la historia
Los planteamientos de Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht y François Hartog sobre la crisis del historicismo y la instauración del "presentismo" -un régimen de relación con el tiempo basado en la experiencia del presente- han ocupado un lugar central en las discusiones recientes sobre la historia. El presentismo ha convivido con otro discurso acerca del tiempo histórico: el del "retorno del acontecimiento", al que han aportado autores como Alain Badiou y Slavo…
Sobre Olivier , CompagnonCamille Foulard, Guillemette Martin, María Inés Tato (coords.), La Gran Guerra en América Latina
Jean Robert
La obra de Jean Robert como pensador, activista y "arquitecto desprofesionalizado", se puede concebir como una serie de derivaciones del acto de caminar -practicarlo, pensarlo, describirlo, teorizarlo-, y también creando las condiciones en las que más y más personas puedan ejercerlo. En este artículo, se rastrea la genealogía del acto de caminar como gesto ético y estético y también en su dimensión política, y se reflexiona acerca de cómo éste co…
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy
In his six years as president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed to be bringing genuine democracy to Mexico. Although his anti-poverty programs proved effective, his transformation of the political system diminished pluralism while building up the dominance of his Morena party, which he continues to lead since leaving office. He also gave the military an expanded role in domestic tasks such as internal security and infrastructure management, cr…
The Mexican Model
In a world increasingly overtaken by right-wing populism, Mexico is a rare case where a progressive government has remained in control through mul-tiple elections and made solid advances. Conservative parties have mostly vanished from the political landscape, while Morena, the ruling left-wing party, holds a supermajority in Congress, governs twenty-three of thirty-two states, and has led the country under two presidents. Current president Claudi…
Convergent futures
The present article traces the mastering of time as a demand for controlling the future within the onset of social thought, addressing the treatment of time by modern institutions to demonstrate the future-making process they deploy. Based on the former, it explores the acceleration theorizing as a milestone example of time mastery, along with the seemingly contrary claims of deceleration. The article asserts that, despite their apparent differen…
Humanities (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · History (2 works) · International Relations in Latin America (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophical and Cultural Analysis (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)