Leyendo el tejido social: Análisis discursivo y retórica cultural en el sur global

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Carlos del Valle (ed)

Synopsis

The contemporary state of affairs, however, is way too complex to presuppose that a simple formula will be enough to synthesize all its multiple facets. The fact that both our institutions and our mental life are regulated by communication is more and more evident. It is also clear that human history should submit itself to a democratic consensus, and that contemporary societies have to proclaim themselves democratic, pretending many times they are following a consensus that must be the kernel of collective and of individual development. This consensus, however, is itself also being submitted to an all-encompassing social experiment. Such an experiment is permanently looking for new laws and new accomplishments, because in complying with the scientific model, it presupposes that laws previously valid, and previous social accomplishments no longer apply because social life is in need of being reinvented and people should live in harmony the new laws. The individuals are therefore entangled in this continuous reconfiguration of their institutions and of themselves.
They are nolens volens obliged to judge this perpetual renewal of their social tissue in order to secure their own personal life. This book is an answer to the now globally widespread need of judgment by everyone of the results of this continuous reconfiguration, and although it does not claim any final conclusion, it sums up many important views about our time, coming from human and social that should be an important contribution to the construction a humanity worth living.

“From Jacques Poulain’s Prologue”

Book Co-Editors: Pablo Valdivia, Carlos del Valle

Publishers: University of Groningen Press in Co-edition with UFRO University Press , Chile.

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Author Biographies

Pablo Valdivia

Pablo Valdivia is Full Professor and Chair of European Culture and Literature (University of Groningen), Associate at Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Harvard University), Laspau Fellow in University Innovation (Laspau-affiliated with Harvard University), Academic Director of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) and Expert Scientific Advisor of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities and the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIAS-KNAW). He carries multidisciplinary research with special emphasis in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Reading Science, University Innovation, Data Science, Applied Sciences, Social Sciences, Cultural Analytics and Cognitive Sciences.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2039-5882

Carlos del Valle

Carlos del Valle-Rojas is Full Professor and Director of PhD Program in Communication at the University of La Frontera, and Chapter Academic in Chilean Academy of Social, Political and Moral Sciences. He is also Coordinator of Communication Groups in international organizations such as CLACSO and ALAIC.

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Published

May 15, 2020

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Keywords:

Humanities Multidisciplinary Research, Cultural Science, Crisis Studies, Marginalization Narratives, Social Change & Politics

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ISBN-13 (15)

9789562363679

Publication date (01)

2020-05-15