Intelectuales, discurso y proceso hegemónico en Bolivia

Abstract

This paper adressess the role of the intellectuals in the political struggle that characterizes the most recent period of bolivian history. The main purpose is to show that intellectuals play a strategic function while constrained by the raw logic of the political power that is imposed over its practice. Using the biographical method, this paper takes two of the most prominent intellectuals of the last years: Carlos Mesa Gisbert and Álvaro García Linera. Nevertheless both academics have been in opposed parties and in several occasions they polemicized with each other; however, it is possible to describe the influence of the same structural constraints that affects the production of their respective discourses. At the same time it is shown that the hegemonic process forces the modification of the discourses in order to better adjust to the volatile political context

Keywords

• : Intellectuals
• political field
• vice-presidents
• biographical method
• Bolivia.