A Circle in Recent Argentine Political Philosophy

Abstract

This article analyzes three ways political philosophy has taken in the last decade in Argentina: 1) the State-related philosophy developed in the books published by Hydra publishing house; 2) the way explored by Silvia Schwarzböck; 3) the way taken by Damián Selci in his book Theory of militancy. The circle that binds these three approaches runs as follows: we must think the State because it is the only legitimate universal political agent (Hydra); nonetheless, the State is involved in a political time lost in appearance (Schwarzböck); and this sad time for politics might be left behind only by means of organized militancy (Selci). But in this article we argue that militancy needs to think the State (which opposes its universality to militant particularism) in order not to fall in a self-declared innocence. The aforementioned theory of militancy has some troubles to think the State, and so we come back to the starting point posited by Hydra books.