Julia Urabayen

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Universidad de Navarra

In this chapter two works of feminist utopian literature are analysed, Mizora by Mary E. Bradley Lane and The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, responding to the utopian thought which underlies both. The first presents an egalitarian and static community which has achieved perfection. The second is a (post)utopian and ambiguous one which develops...

The fundamental principle of modernity on which the utopian stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are based, biopolitics as an unlimited power to transform nature, has generated the collapse of utopias. In this chapter the specific case of feminist utopias will be examined. Many women writers of the time dream of worlds that...

In recent decades, philosophical reflection on the utopian has focused on the analysis of the way in which the future-possible and the radically unknown or “other” influence our present. Specifically, accelerationism and Object-oriented Ontology have identified horror and weird fiction in general, and H. P. Lovecraft in particular, as the privilege...

El propósito de este monográfi co es entablar diálogos cruzados o recuperar algunos de los diálogos que son la urdimbre del pensamiento de Levinas y Derrida. Este número polifónico ofrece la oportunidad de escuchar algunas voces con, contra, desde, por, para las cuales escribieron estos dos fi - lósofos de la alteridad. Por ello quienes lean los tr...

Se presenta aquí la tesis que sirve de hilo conductor a los trabajos agrupados en este monográfico doble: los nuevos sujetos políticos en la postmetrópolis. En primer lugar, se señala la vinculación de la política con la realidad urbana en la que se crean los sujetos políticos. En segundo lugar, se analizan las ciudades actuales, en las que vive ya...

More akin to the Roman Empire’s concept of civitas mobilis augescens, the distinction between the twentieth-century metropolis and the Roman model of a city must be sought in the eminently biopolitical character of the modern-day post-metropolis, conceived by Hardt and Negri as the new hegemonic paradigm of production. As a result, the primacy of t...

Los fenómenos urbanos son modos concretos de reproducción social y, como toda reproducción, tienen un carácter histórico. En este artículo se defenderá que es posible identificar tres grandes paradigmas históricos en el desarrollo urbano del Occidente moderno —la ciudad, la metrópolis y la postmetrópolis— y que su forma de gobernanza coincide con l...

Este artículo analiza algunos aspectos relevantes de los movimientos sociales latinoamericanos. Para explicar en qué consisten y cómo resuelven el problema de la organización política se estudia, siguiendo a Zibechi, algunos movimientos de dos países: Brasil y Bolivia. En el primero, en los años 80 surgieron unos movimientos sociales rurales muy fu...

Foucault’s thought is a toolbox which has been used in a variety of ways. Those multiple uses, do not imply, however, that his philosophy lacks unity. In order to ground this assertion, this article performs a comprehensive re-assessment of the work of Foucault, focused on the notion of governmentality, and it discusses how the main powers analyzed...

Este artículo aborda de forma sintética la visión del ser humano presente en la filosofía de Emmanuel Lévinas y Karol Wojtyla. Ambos pensadores han vivido de cerca los acontecimientos históricos que han asolado Europa en el siglo XX y han centrado su reflexión en la comprensión del ser humano. Sin embargo, sus posturas son muy diferentes. Lévinas c...

Contemporary political philosophy has critically reflected on—if not denounced—the theoretical constructions and political enterprises that have been encouraged by modern Utopian tradition. This process of critical reflection has constantly signaled the tension between the emancipatory aspirations of that thought and its dystopian drift. Many autho...

This paper deals with Marcel’s thought about the subject of death. It wants to elucidate a matter that has a preferential place in Marcel’Philosophy and Theatre. The mystery of death is for Marcel the key to understanding the image we have of the human being.

This paper deals with the first works of Emmanuel Levinas. It showts that in these articles the first steps to his later philosophy are found and that the key notions of his thought are already in these short works: existence, being, position, evasion, time, the Other. El pasado siglo se ha caracterizado filosóficamente por el intenso debate en tor...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar el pensamiento de Gabriel Marcel y Leonardo Polo acerca de un rasgo esencial del ser humano, el tener, y la visión del hombre que se obtiene desde esta característica. Polo considera que existe una jerarquía en el tener, que puede adoptar tres formas: el tener corpóreo, el tener cognoscitivo y el tener habitu...

According to Foucault, while in disciplinary societies the city's physical space was "made an architectural space" modulating it as a panoptic device to monitor and normalize individuals, biopolitical societies have developed a dual risk management device. On the one hand, statistics and cartography have built the new object of government (populati...

La práctica totalidad de los estudios sobre heterotopías producidos en la disciplina arquitectónica están orientados a la identificación o desarrollo de ciertos espacios como counter-sites capaces de generar resistencia frente a las técnicas disciplinares de un poder administrativo que normaliza y controla a los individuos. Por el contrario, este a...

RESUMENEste artículo presenta la relación del pensar y el actuar en la obra de Arendt. La alemana señala que el ser humano tiene que comprender el mundo en el que vive y amar la tierra para convertirla en un espacio humano. Esta creación de la humanitas se realiza por medio de diferentes actividades, algunas prácticas como el trabajo y la acción; o...

span>Para Foucault, el poder es productor de realidad, tiene un sentido positivo y se articula mediante técnicas disciplinarias y biopolíticas. Como todo poder es físico, el lugar sobre el que actúa es el cuerpo, que es una ficción producida por el entrecruzamiento de ambas técnicas. Este entrecruzamiento ha dado lugar a la creación de enfermos, lo...

Levinas's reflections arose as a critique of traditional philosophy which, since it was based on presence and identity, leads to the exclusion of the other. Instead of an onto-logical thought the Lithuanian proposes that the ipseity of the human being be constituted by alterity, and that it be so ethically, because the subject is sub-ject, that is,...

This article is a reflection on a key theme in some of today’s most important philosophical currents: interpersonal relations. In the 20th century many thinkers opted for a different treatment of the person, and especially his or her openness to others. The approach taken in this article will throw light on the confluence of diverse postures and, a...

This essay investigates the conception of politics in the works of Levinas and Derrida to show not only their points of convergence but also (and especially) their differences. We have structured this article into two sections, dedicated respectively to Levinas and to Derrida. In this article, we will reflect on one of the topics that has tradition...

This paper deals with some of the problems involved in the political theory of Arendt. She wants to emphasize the autonomy of politics, such that political activity is different from the personal and social. In this way, the public space excludes the private and the economic. Because of this exclusion, Arendt does not pay attention to certain key a...

Con la Modernidad, la reflexión filosófica sobre la política ha incidido progresivamente en la relevancia del espacio público como lugar de aparición y, por tanto, de acción. Estos son los ejes de la obra arendtiana que intenta delimi-tar el espacio político y el papel de la ciudadanía a la hora de constituir y mantener este espacio por medio de un...

This paper studies the most relevant works in which Levinas try to resolve the problem whether the word "God" has a meaning or not, which leads to a critic of Ontotheology trying to reach God beyond the being. In the first part, it is exhibited how the infinite rips totality and gives place to Ethics and Theology. In the second part, the consequenc...

This paper deals with the debate about the Humanism started by Sartre and followed by the answer of Heidegger. After a breaking-off with the classical image of the human being, those authors pointed to a new way of thinking about a human being not seen as a subject. After this discussion, we analyze the humanism of Levinas, who tries to see the hum...

In this paper, I deal with the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, as a reflection on the human being which is, in the end, a kind of humanism. It is nonetheless a tragic one. He thought about the human being as a valuable being but with the capacity to self-destruct. This capacity of degradation is so far reaching that it has broken the world in which w...

Este artículo presenta la filosofía de Marcel como una reflexión sobre el ser humano que es, en el fondo, una forma de humanismo. Es, no obstante, un humanismo trágico, una visión del ser humano como un ser digno que puede destruirse a sí mismo. Esta capacidad de envilecimiento es tal que ha llevado a los seres humanos a vivir en un mundo roto. Sin...

The purpose of this paper is to explain Polo's thought about human es-sence. Leonardo Polo proposes a new interpretation of the real diffe-rence of Thomas Aquinas, and founded in it an ampliation transcenden-tal. This is the sense of the Transcendental Anthropology.

In this interview, Prof. Volpi reflects on several topics. First, concerning the close relationship that exists between Aristotelian philosophy, nihilism and technology. According to Dr. Volpi, the contemporary world has been thoroughly shaped by technoscience, and requires a recovery of the meaning of human action and life. Secondly, given that th...

One of the most import issues in contemporary philosophy is the relationship between identity and otherness. This theme is related to the definition of Europe and of its traditions. The philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt are a reflection on this question. Both of them share some points, but they give very different answers: Arendt c...

This paper deals with the first works of Emmanuel Levinas. It showts that in these articles the first steps to his later philosophy are found and that the key notions of his thought are already in these short works: existence, being, position, evasion, time, the Other.

This paper deals with Marcel's thought about the subject of death. It wants to elucidate a matter that has a preferential place in Marcel' Philosophy and Theatre. The mystery of death is for Marcel the key to understanding the image we have of the human being.

The purpose of this paper is to explain Polo's thought about human es-sence. Leonardo Polo proposes a new interpretation of the real difference of Thomas Aquinas, and founded in it an ampliation transcendental. This is the sense of the Transcendental Anthropology.

La philosophie de Bergson, plus concrètement sa dernière oeuvre Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion, porte une grande attention aux problèmes des sociétés contemporaines: la violence et la guerre. Le Français souligne les difficultés qui existent pour arriver à une vraie coexistence et, comme philosophe, il se demande quelles sont les s...

Se presentan los aspectos claves del pensamiento de Levinas (1906-1995), judío lituano nacionalizado francés, la autora propone la tesis de que es un filósofo pero que hace filosofía diferente a la tradicional. Su obra es una personal reflexión sobre la racionalidad, la filosofía y la civilización occidental, cuyas fuentes principales son el judaís...