A Bet on “Use-Value”: A Dive into the Architecture of Bolivar Echeverría’s Thought

This paper concentrates on the foundations of the architecture of Echeverría’s thoughts. It focuses on the launch of an organic concept of culture associated with the problems developed by way of Marx about the “social-natural way”, which recognizes the essential contradictions in the existance of t...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Inclán, Daniel, Millán, Márgara, Linsalata, Lucía
Formato: Revistas
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2012
Acceso en línea:https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/346
Descripción
Sumario:This paper concentrates on the foundations of the architecture of Echeverría’s thoughts. It focuses on the launch of an organic concept of culture associated with the problems developed by way of Marx about the “social-natural way”, which recognizes the essential contradictions in the existance of the social being. We will refer to Echeverría’s theory of the ethe of modernity to investigate the anchors of a non-capitalist modernity. Particularly, our reading of his works attempts to highlight its political nature, aiming its theoretical discussions toward the tensions between use value and exchange value. Additionally, it displaces –yet does not omit– the labor-capital contradiction that lies at the center of the paradigm of both left-wing criticism and the idea of revolution. We consider the persistence of use-value and the qualitative dimensions of lifeworld both central keys in establishing a world to come.