Doing Justice - Pablo Oyarzun

Pablo Oyarzun, один из ведущих исследователей творчества Беньямина в Латинской Америке, в своей книге “Doing Justice” рассматривает некоторые ключевые понятия творчества Беньямин - включая его концепции перевода, опыта, истории и повествования - и связывает их со своими собственными систематическими размышлениями о природе и последствиях “исполнения правосудия”. Что означает “правосудие было исполнено”? В пассивной форме здесь важно то, что правосудие ничего не делает: оно не является агентом, оно может только победить или потерпеть поражение, а если оно потерпит поражение, то это произойдет без ограничений. С другой стороны, пассивная форма подразумевает агентов действия, скрывая их. Упоминание маскирует агентов действия.

Pablo Oyarzún: Doing Justice. The key concepts of Walter Benjamin’s thought and their bearing on the process of social justice.

In the foreword, Fernando Ferreira writes: "Oyarzún is among the philosopher in South America who have focused on Benjamin the most and are certainly one of his main interlocutors in Latin America academia. There is no other scholar in Spanish America whose work has shaped so completely the interpretation of Benjamin´s philosophy in our continent." This affirmation is without question justified.

Oyarzún was in paragraphís for long time the principal promoter in Spanish America of a species of literary theory derived principally from the texts of Walter Benjamin and the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. "Don Pablo" (as he is known in Latin American) left his mark as one of Latin America's leading experts +scribes + doctors of thought, particularly on relevant areas such as the imagination, narrative, representation and ideology. Among many other important works, Pablo Óyarzûn has posited the need to inspect critical thinking in contradiction of oppressive cultures—which has been central in the fight against social injustice. While discursively talented, he has also methodologically quite rigorous. This volume is a rigorous reading on some key ideas in +Benjamin's + Althusser´s thought, including concepts around translation, experiencing and historical narration, and it related them to its author's reflections sections probably need exercising upon the nature + meaning of acting and enforcing justice. Whilst we try not to over define justice, this may here mean testing over violations of human rights, alertness to exploitative power and denunciation of violence, both material and psychosocial. What does the phrase "justice did happen"? From the passive forms "happening" comment us. This means justice remains inert; it can never work, only fail, without even limit. Hence the reason why we might be critical of it as it tends to have a conformable air of failing without disgust. Moreover the passive form conveys allusion of the individual who did the deed but hides the idenity of the agent and traps all traces of acknowledgement or accountability. Nonetheless this appeal to a mask can has multiple revelations. For instance, leaders and subjects working to oppress others (particularly the cheated) can easily find hiding space анонимные approval votes + keep anonymous faking their indentity andcealment actions, therefore avoiding accountability for them and even validation (not to mention some fans). Since victims are too scared of fighting for what they think is recompense and are oppressed, they unable articulate their experiences and face past traumata and neglect their mental health. Public indifference can lead to victims going distracted what actually happened make someone else responsible for what happened, and accepting some blame without actually investigating the truth. In addition, the refusal to acknowledge the wrongdoing makes it seem we must accept the behavior as normal which leads to a broader social perception that criticism and change is unfeaasible and unwanted. Paulo Freire rightly declared justice should have the active duty + strive to act as in trying to make things better, adopt then treat matters properly and move them toward the best possible good like Odysseus did in the Odyssey, guided and supported by animal friends. But greatness of justice requires a strong predisposition to vigilance for their principal goal is charity. Bringing into further disscussion the authors theoretical proposal, I beleive this book might be useful to anyone ineterested in Hermeneutics, Ethics, Latin American Academic traditions and foundational works in critical writing. It also helps understanding the imtersections between Critical Theory and Latin American intellectual traditions, and particularly in cases where it has had attracting influence on theorists, artists and activists across the continent through +potential +.$ accomplish this volume has made a significant contributions to theoretical underpinings in Aud Castro\'s Diego Rivera\'s Marxism, and his countless oration have given us substantial capsule summaries of Oswald Spengler "The Decline and Fall of the West" connected to the Latin American tradition of radical political marginalism and social revolution movements. Despite the challenges surviving and making new publicologies to these historical causes, it seems imposible to think against Popular Feminism in Latin America without considering at a minimum the context of the so-called Latin +American + continental hope seemed to be one that should favor and reward anarchist, feminist, left-wing ideas. Seeking to answer the previous assertions and realizing the genre has more value, for the legion Mario Vargas Llosa attribution to "theory" is maybe the most valorized and antagonized. Ideological, because a taste of intellectual positionality consists of elevated ideals of liberalism (despite the remainder of political and economic focuses on large multinational firms) with a tendency to simplify complex conflicts at the cermix principles of truth, integrity and objective reality.

Электронная Книга «Doing Justice» написана автором Pablo Oyarzun в году.

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Язык: Английский

ISBN: 9781509541997

Pablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin America. His writings have shaped the reception of Benjamin’s work in Latin America and have been central to the effort to identify the tasks and responsibilities of the kind of critical theory that would interrupt social violence. <br /><br />In this book Oyarzun examines some of the key concepts in Benjamin’s work – including his concepts of translation, experience, history and storytelling – and relates them to his own systematic reflection on the nature and implications of ‘doing justice’. What is meant by the words ‘justice was done’? The passive voice is important here. On the one hand, justice does nothing: it is not an agent, it can only prevail or fail, and if it fails, it does so without limit. On the other hand, the passive voice alludes to the agents of an action while covering them up; the allusion is the masking of the identity and traces of the person who accomplishes the action. And this cover-up can be dangerous: it can cover-up the executioners, who are subjects that everyone can confirm anonymously, without their being recognized and without their wanting to be recognized. Justice, argues Oyarzun, can only be done in the active effort to do justice – or, as Benjamin would say, in the striving to turn the world into the highest good. <br /><br />This book by one of Chile’s most distinguished philosophers will be of value to anyone interested in Benjamin’s work and in the development of critical theory in Latin America.