Athenea Digital (Jul 2010)

Para una teoría social del acontecimiento Towards a Social Theory of the Event

  • Jaime De la Calle Valverde

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 18
pp. 65 – 81

Abstract

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La reflexi&oacute;n en torno al acontecimiento ha tenido cierta tradici&oacute;n en la teor&iacute;a social francesa del siglo XX. Sin embargo, esa presencia hist&oacute;rica ha sido irregular: junto a etapas de completa invisibilidad han coexistido otras en las que ha tenido algo m&aacute;s de protagonismo. En las d&eacute;cadas de los 70 y de los 80 se reivindica el acontecimiento como respuesta al estructuralismo que acapara la investigaci&oacute;n&nbsp; de las d&eacute;cadas centrales del siglo XX. Se trata de una reivindicaci&oacute;n m&aacute;s te&oacute;rica que emp&iacute;rica, en busca de una salida a los sistemas sociales cerrados descritos por el estructuralismo.<br />Este art&iacute;culo se propone recuperar ese aporte te&oacute;rico. Sin embargo, las sociedades contempor&aacute;neas parecen ser diferentes de las sociedades firmemente estructuradas que nos fueron descritas en el siglo XX. Nos preguntamos si el acontecimiento es el mismo. Es decir, si el acontecimiento es una v&iacute;a de cambio en sociedades que viven en un cambio permanente. Se probar&aacute;, pues, la validez actual de aquellas reflexiones sobre el acontecimiento y, llegado el caso, se actualizar&aacute; dicha teor&iacute;a de acuerdo a una nueva realidad contempor&aacute;nea.<p>&nbsp;</p> The reflection on the event has had a certain tradition in the social French theory of the 20th century. Nevertheless, this historical presence has been irregular: there were stages of complete invisibility and phases in which the event has had a bit more of prominence. In the 70s and 80s of the 20th century the analysts claim the event as response to the structuralism, which monopolizes the research of the central decades of this century. Is a theoretical claim and to a lesser extent, empiricist, in search of an exit to the closed social systems described by the structuralism.<br />This article proposes to recover this theoretical contribution. However, modern societies seem to be different from solidly structured societies described in the 20th century. We wonder if the event is the same. That is to say, if the event is a way of change in societies who live in a permanent change. It will test, then, the current validity of those reflections on the event and, where appropriate, this theory will be updated according to a new contemporary reality.

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