Call for Papers 3 (1): PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND TRUTH

2024-08-20

Latin American Journal of Humanities and Educational Divergences is a biannual open access publication, edited by Grupo J. J. San Marcos (Peru), which aims to disseminate research in the field of humanities and education that questions critical topics about society. contemporary in order to contribute to its fair, symmetrical and dignified transformation. The magazine receives unpublished and original works of a scientific nature, especially scientific articles (qualitative and/or quantitative research, as well as conceptual reflections), book reviews and eventually interviews.

For the call for the first volume of its third issue, the Magazine organizes a dossier on “Philosophy, Politics and Truth” with the researchers Iván Torres Apablaza (University of Chile, Department of Philosophy, Scientific Research Ethics Committee) as guest editors. and Humanities) and Silvana Vignale (Institute of Human, Social and Environmental Sciences, Scientific and Technological Center, CONICET Mendoza).

The history of the relationship between philosophy, politics and truth is that of a polemical disposition. This is attested to by the inaugural scene of philosophy, where the discourse of truth confronts the truth of politics. The tradition of thought of this event has since given rise to an ambivalence regarding politics: the truth will function, sometimes, as support for the function of government; while in another, as the ethics of a true statement regarding power. In other words, as a true discourse of politics, or as a parrhesiastic exercise of confronting power with the courage of truth. Despite this, both attitudes show us the co-existence between philosophy and politics, not because of the specific content of the truth put into play, but because of its functioning, its articulations, because of what it mobilizes or circulates - as every regime of truth commits to individuals in their decisions and forms of obedience. In this light, the truth will always be a position of strength, that is, an interpretation that exhibits the effects of power and a power that produces discourses of truth. Some contributions could be interested in showing the knotting of truth discourses and political practices around the processes of subjectification, as a possible genealogy of the subjects that we are today. It is a subjection or dissubjection of a politics of truth that generates effects of subjectivation that increase or decrease the degrees of freedom around the possibility of constituting oneself as subjects. In other words, what subjective effects do the different links between politics and truth produce? What correlations present in the relationships between knowledge-power have determined the forms of subjectivation until our time? Hence, in that territory that opens between politics and truth, it is necessary to think about the practices of freedom, but also about the forms of obedience, on which our voluntary servitudes still rest today - since that inaugural scene. The latter can invite work around an analysis located in a history of the present or diagnosis based on precise historical conjunctures in recent decades, such as the ways in which liberalism and later neoliberalism have expressed those relationships, and that are currently manifested in the appearance of the so-called “new rights” and in the crisis as a model of government and symptom of the time. In this sense, it is necessary to update the ways in which philosophy, politics and truth are combined in a context of technological and scientific challenges, as well as critical thinking itself that has defensively retreated into characterizing the power devices that govern us, without imagination. to offer novel alternatives from other possible worlds.

Armed with these reading keys, the following dossier calls for analysis and discussions that allow us to think about the contemporary forms of relationship between philosophy, politics and truth. Above all, taking into account the current crisis of these discursive forms, in a context of devaluation and discredit of politics, of indeterminacy of true discourses and of the academic withdrawal of philosophical discourse. From the perspective of this monograph, it is estimated that a work of thought on these problems could shed new perspectives on the role of philosophy on the threshold of an epochal change that requires thinking about the ethical and political determinations of truth. The axes of problematization that organize this call are the following:

  • Political history of truth.
  • Folds and tensions between ethics, politics and truth.
  • Government practices and truth speeches.
  • Political subjects and regimes of truth.
  • Political imagination and truth.
  • Relationships between truth and politics in our present.

The deadline for submitting contributions is November 30, 2023. Submissions must be made through the journal's OJS:

https://revistas.jjsanmarcos.org/index.php/lajhed/about/submissions

Articles must use the APA citation format (seventh edition), must be unpublished and must not be sent simultaneously to another journal. The minimum length is 12 pages and the maximum 25; In both cases you must send a .docx or .doc file in letter format, 2.5 margins and 1.5 line spacing. In the case of reviews, the minimum length is 5 pages and the maximum is 10 with the same formal requirements as articles. For more details, you can review the guidelines for authors: https://revistas.jjsanmarcos.org/index.php/lajhed/author-guidelines. Any questions can be written to the director of the magazine, Jesús Ayala-Colqui: jesus.ayalacolqui@educaidscientific.com