Societal Constitutionalism in a Hegelian perspective

Descripción del proyecto

Una perspectiva neohegeliana en filosofía política

La filosofía política contemporánea debe abordar el reto de sectores sociales independientes como la economía, los medios de comunicación y la ciencia que operan más allá de las fronteras nacionales, eluden la regulación estatal y redefinen la relación entre la sociedad civil y el Estado. El equipo del proyecto SOCIAL, que cuenta con el apoyo de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, elaborará un nuevo enfoque examinando la independencia en aumento de las instituciones económicas, sociales y culturales y su incorporación a la política. Introducirá marcos conceptuales basados en la teoría institucional hegeliana, que estarán centrados en las ideas del filósofo hegeliano Alexandre Kojève y harán hincapié en las similitudes entre este modelo neohegeliano y las consideraciones contemporáneas del constitucionalismo societario. En el proyecto se integrará de forma innovadora una perspectiva neohegeliana de la filosofía política con distintas tradiciones.

Objetivo

Contemporary political philosophy must address the rise of autonomous social sectors (economy, media, science) that escape state regulation by expanding beyond national borders and that challenge traditional forms of politics. The problem at stake is the relationship between civil society and state which Hegel first outlined from the perspective of the nation-state and which has since been radically reconfigured.
SOCIAL aims to develop a new approach to this issue by investigating today’s autonomisation of economic, social and cultural institutions and their integration at the political level. The purpose is to contribute to the debate on the specificity of a transnational subject by introducing conceptual tools in the wake of Hegelian institutional theory.
The research will focus on the Hegelian philosopher A. Kojève who explored the possibility of a civil society beyond the state and the relationship between the social and the political on a post-national scale. SOCIAL will highlight the common ground between this neo-Hegelian model and contemporary reflections on societal constitutionalism – in particular the work of the jurist G. Teubner – to outline a new transnational societal constitutionalism in a global perspective. The research will draw on the evolution of functional systems and on institutional pluralism, aspects that current majoritarian approaches such as Kantian cosmopolitanism or Rawlsian theory of international justice do not sufficiently take into account.
SOCIAL aims to provide a unified perspective and a new way of conceiving philosophical research in current dialogue with extra-philosophical fields and contemporary debates. Its originality lies in the integration of a neo-Hegelian perspective in political philosophy with different traditions like the theory of social systems and legal pluralism, which are crucial for understanding the structure of society in a world articulated by the coexistence of many parallel legal orders beyond the state.