José Luis Moreno Pestaña | 07.11.2011
In this article I reconstruct, in the first place, the political context in which Foucault dictated the courses of 1977-1978 and 1978-1979. Next, I analyze these courses with special attention to the articulation between theoretical and political meanings, not forgetting the winks and the differentiations made by the author in the intelectual field (mainly, related to marxism and sociology). [...]
Michael Scott Christofferson, Les intellectuels contre la gauche. L'idéologie antitotalitaire en France (1973-1981), 2009.
José Luis Moreno Pestaña | 23.08.2010
Le concept de totalitarisme a déjà une longue histoire : de Léon Trotsky à Raymond Aron, de Simone Weil à Juan José Linz. Il admet trois possibilités d’utilisation sur un large éventail de registres : certains plus philosophiques (intéressants pour penser la réalité de mouvements politiques mortifères), d’autres plus empiriques (utiles pour construire des taxinomies [...]
José Luis Moreno Pestaña | 01.09.2009
In this text I shall analyze the career of three Spanish intellectuals (Juan Carlos García-Borrón, Esteban Pinilla de las Heras, and Manuel Sacristán Luzón) from their autobiographic stories, with the aim of developing a sociology of intellectual failure. In order to analyze the different forms of failure in their narratives I shall distinguish between three poles of intellectual excellence: institutional reputation, intellectual reputation, and creative autonomy. So, with the experience of failure as a guide, I shall try to [...]