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Today, Chavist Venezuela is at the forefront of global radicalism. However, if we refocus on the political bifurcations of the actors involved, what kind of identity reconfigurations do we find between a Bolivarian radicalism that tends to integrate a doctrine of State and never-ending redefinitions of popular radicalism, among Chávez's supporters? What radicalization processes can a sociologist discern in the working-class areas of the barrios? Questioning the dynamics of radicalization that involves new “inputs” and “outputs” of radicalism in a working-class context is an opportunity to cast a new light on how the “dominated” usually relate to politics.
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AbstractDemocracy appears at the end of this century triumphant and at the same time worried about itself. For some (Fukuyama), the triump of democracy indicates that we are at "the end of history". But democracy seems also worried about itself as shown by the passionate debates concerning its meaning. We identify, in recent literature on the subject in the field of political philosophy, three different and conflicting conceptions of democracy. We also try to show that the phenomenon called globalization is considered by some as a serious threat to the ideal and practice of democracy.
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AbstractFor about two centuries, we can state that social sciences have demonstrated their ethics in only one way. Whether they have attempted only to understand the world, or rather to transform it, the practice of science has always been based on an universal value System. Ethics, therefore, define a particular usage of knowledge and learning.The hypothesis that we want to defend is that Michel Foucault's works did try to redefine the relationship between politics and ethics. The French genealogist did not attempt to establish a different moral - more universal - basis for politics. In so doing he would not have changed, in any substantial way, our way of posing political questions or the way we engage in political battles. In fact, he demonstrates to us that we should not search for an ethical foundation to politics, but rather, that ethical work is politics. In other words, Foucault is refusing to consider politics in moral terms, or starting from a certain political theory or a universal value System. He makes this refusal a precondition to political action.