Movimientos sociales: Totalidad y contingencia

Abstract

The uruguayan philosopher Yamandú Acosta contributes to the production of a reflection from our America from the concept of reconstruction, understood as a critical activation mode of the thinking, as reconstruction from philosophy. To do this, among other theoretical tools, uses the wholeness as interpretative category.

All is understood as the abandonment of the illusion of an actually existing externality the subject, at two levels, one more abstract, identified with the whole of reality, and other more specific as totalities contingent and historical. Acosta unarmed the hegelian categorial pair of wholeness- necessity and rearticulate with the possibility. This allows you to rebuild the subject and think democracy as a universalist agenda quota as a regulatory power of inclusion and differences.

From this category of all, my reflection is called into question the operation of democratic consolidation discourse and think the processes of democratization of our countries in the South of the American continent, giving priority to the action of social movements. This implies, inter alia, jeopardize the tension of the pair categorial “instituyente-instituido”, in the formation of such processes and movements, since this pair can be considered, because from an irreconcilable divergence either, or from some form of convergence. The latter is the position that I try to defend, considering that these oppositions and identifications operate a reduction in the field of politics, with it being analogous inter-library only with one of the poles of the relationship and ignoring their correlation.