Diego Hernán Rossello

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez · Philosophy

Human dignity is making a comeback. The essay focuses on the story that this comeback of human dignity presupposes and recasts. In that story, the “human family” is portrayed in terms of aristocratic dignitas. The consequences are twofold: (1) human dignity is co-implicated with the de-animalization of the human being; (2) once de-animalization is...

This article suggests that humanism is a decisionism in contemporary critical political theory. Despite obvious and multiple differences, leading critical theorists like Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, Eric Santner, and Jürgen Habermas, among others, share an investment in stabilizing the human being as a ground of the political. This stabilization...

This article puts Arendt’s conception of non-human animal appearance into a productive dialogue with recent developments in critical animal studies (CAS) and animal rights theory (ART) within which notions such as (dependent) agency, zoopolis, and animal agora play an important role. By reinterpreting the animal condition in Arendt’s account of the...

Exchange with professor Nadia Urbinati on representative democracy and populism.

El presente trabajo explora el vínculo posible entre la época geológica denominada Antropoceno y formas alternativas de pensar la historia. Sugerimos que este vínculo merece ser pensado porque, como es sabido, el Antropoceno desdibuja la distinción clásica entre historia humana e historia natural y, al hacerlo, pone presión sobre uno de los dualism...

Afirmar que El príncipe de Nicolás Maquiavelo es un clásico de la historia del pensamiento político es casi una obviedad. Desde su redacción en 1513, El príncipe ha sido leído, comentado y criticado por incontables estudiosos y estudiosas, así como por líderes políticos tan disímiles como Oliver Cromwell, Napoleón Bonaparte y Joseph Stalin. Su difu...

En el prólogo de La condición humana (LCH), Hannah Arendt advierte que el lanzamiento del primer satélite artificial Sputnik revela un cambio en la relación que los seres humanos mantienen con el planeta Tierra que los aloja. Arendt remarca la novedad de que un satélite fabricado por los seres humanos pueda por primera vez unirse, aunque sea por un...

This chapter explores alternative approaches to political theology by drawing on Eric Santner and Jacques Derrida as points of departure, to arrive at the work by Kari Weil and Jane Bennett. In their works, Schmitt’s decision to be human does not take place, leaving ample conceptual room for the creature, the animal, and other non-human beings to t...

En 2018, con motivo del bicentenario del nacimiento de Karl Marx, la revista The Economist publicó una editorial en la que exhortaba a sus lectores y lectoras a frecuentar el pensamiento del autor alemán para comprender mejor nuestro tiempo. Esta exhortación por parte de una revista alejada de los ideales del marxismo mantiene su vigencia. Por este...

Bonnie Honig’s book, Shell-Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump (2021), is a sharp, urgent, and sophisticated critique of Trumpism’s many facets. But it is not any kind of critique: it is a feminist critique of Trumpism’s policies, gestures, affects, and legacies. Suggestive in Honig’s book is the proposal of a specific type of intense sensorial...

Reseña del libro Deparochializing Political Theory, de Melissa S.Williams (ed.)

The paper discusses the concept of community in the work of Italian political theorist Roberto Esposito. The relationship between Esposito’s idea of communitas and recent literature in animal rights theory is explored. It is argued that the communitas theorized by Esposito contributes to rethinking the political beyond the human, in ways that compl...

Is the animal a subject of interest to Carl Schmitt? Academic common sense presupposes that the question of the animal is alien both to Schmitt's intellectual interests and to his conception of the political, the theological, and the relationship between the two. In this paper we suggest that this impression should be revised in the light of textua...

Resumen El presente trabajo discute la relación entre el Antropoceno y una determinada manera de entender la dignidad del ser humano. El Antropoceno es una nuevaépoca en la escala geológica en la cual los seres humanos adquieren un rol protagónico. Este rol se evidencia en la acidificación creciente de los océanos, los niveles de dióxido de carbono...

Resumen / Abstract El presente trabajo discute el concepto de comunidad en la obra del teórico italiano Roberto Esposito y su relación con literatura reciente en la teoría de los derechos de los animales. Se argumenta que la communitas teorizada por Esposito constituye un aporte a la configuración de una comunidad más allá de lo humano, de un modo...

Este artículo reflexiona sobre el vínculo entre ciencia política y teoría política en América Latina. Por un lado, argumentamos que, en el modo en que trata a ‘la teoría’, la ciencia política dominante revela algunos de sus ‘rasgos de personalidad’ más problemáticos. Por otro lado, proponemos que la teoría política —siempre y cuando se le permita—...

Rather than having a frontal approach toward animality or reflecting on the animal as such, Esposito introduces this problematic as an element that traditional metaphysics has not been able to properly reflect upon. Esposito’s philosophy suggests that if we want to leave behind an immunitarian politics over life that has produced submission, suffer...

La denominada cuestión del animal ha tomado una importancia creciente en la academia contemporánea. Desde ámbitos distintos como la filosofía, la sociología, la ciencia política, los estudios literarios y la teoría del arte, los aportes realizados en la investigación sobre la cuestión del animal van configurando un nuevo y vibrante campo de estudio...

Resumen ¿Es el animal un tema de interés para Carl Schmitt? El sentido común académico presupone que la cuestión del animal es ajena tanto a los intereses intelectuales de Schmitt como a su concepción de lo político, de lo teológico y de la relación que ambos mantienen entre sí. En este trabajo sugerimos que esta impresión debe ser revisada a la lu...

In this review, we report the main discussions and concepts debated in the workshop " Animals and Politics: Explorations for a More-Than-Human Democracy, " the first academic event on animal studies in Chile. After a brief overview of the workshop, we summarize its results by identifying three broad conversations that cut across the workshop—border...

1. ¿Qué es la teoría política crítica? El principal objetivo del presente artículo es ofrecer un panorama introductorio a la teoría política crítica. Aunque por razones de espacio dicho panorama no podrá ser exhaustivo, deberá ser por lo menos consistente en el análisis y específico en su contenido. Para ello resulta necesario determinar, cuanto me...

In contrast to framings of the political that emphasize heroic action or emergency’s exceptionalism, Bonnie Honig’s agonistic democracy is linked to ordi- nary emergences and the sororal bond. In this interview, Honig explores the political potential of the ordinary in Franz Rosenzweig’s theology of the everyday, as well as in the work of feminist...

The interview took place at the Department of Politics, Princeton University, in two consecutive, two-hour long, morning sessions on January 14th and 15th, 2013. The interview was conducted by two professors of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile: Tomás Chuaqui Henderson, associate professor of political science, and former student of Profe...

MAQUIAVELO El Príncipe 500 años después

Homo homini lupus, man is a wolf to man, remains one of the most well-known and often quoted dictums in the tradition of political theory. Political theorists take this phrase by Thomas Hobbes in the Epistle Dedicatory of De Cive to illustrate the brutish, anarchical and violent condition of man in the natural condition, prior to the establishment...

Eric Santner's book is an engaging tour-de-force through the vestiges of divinely authorized royal authority in our allegedly secular, and post-monarchical, modern democratic culture. Skillfully combining insights from political theology, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and biopolitics, Santner suggests that, despite conventional wisdom, the roy...

Carl Schmitt introduced the notion of a personalistic sovereign authority. Walter Benjamin was both influenced by, and a critic of, Schmitt’s project. The nature of Benjamin’s critique, however, still requires elucidation as commentators have not exhausted the implications of the melancholic prince in his Trauerspiel book. Contrary to Schmitt’s sov...

Homo homini lupus, man is a wolf to man, remains one of the most well-known and often quoted dicta in the tradition of political theory. Political theorists take this phrase by Thomas Hobbes in the Epistle Dedicatory of De Cive to illustrate the brutish, anarchical, and violent condition of man in the state of nature, prior to the establishment of...

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