Abstract

The present article is a contribution to the discussion about the significance and the content of truth we confer to the concept of Enlightenment. It covers the most important critiques that the Enlightenment has historically received from different sides and reflects about whether these affect its normative core. Besides, it wants to show the necessity of rethinking the validity of this normative core for the coordinates of our paradoxical world, in which a globalization said to have imperialist features confronts a reflexive pluralism which questions western ethnocentrism.

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  • The present article is a contribution to the discussion about the significance and the content of truth we confer to the concept of Enlightenment

  • It covers the most important critiques that the Enlightenment has historically received from different sides and reflects about whether these affect its normative core

  • It wants to show the necessity of rethinking the validity of this normative core for the coordinates of our paradoxical world, in which a globalization said to have imperialist features confronts a reflexive pluralism which questions western ethnocentrism

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Introduction

Claro que aquí la distinción esencial es la que se da entre la liberación de la coacción de la naturaleza externa (que sólo puede pensarse en términos relativos y que no puede considerarse como conquistable a partir de la mera dominación, sino que exige modos de relación en los que la apropiación necesaria para la supervivencia de nuestra especie pueda convivir con formas de cuidado y de respeto aún por pensar) y la emancipación del carácter de segunda naturaleza de la realidad social: si la primera es una cuestión sobre todo ecológica, que exige aceptar la impotencia última del ser humano frente a una naturaleza que siempre lo desbordará, la segunda es una cuestión política candente y abierta.

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