Setting boundaries: key issues in today's political discourse

Abstract

This is an attempt to explain the evolution of political discourse from the perspective of political philosophy. It places as analytical bases the apprehensive forms of immanence and transcendence in the political thinking and acting of human communities today. These two categories are deeply rooted in political philosophy and establish patterns in everyday action. In this sense, their limits have the conditioning factor of making us feel to what extent they can become an epistemological mechanism of reference for political analysis. We understand by immanence the active principle on which the normative is built, the basis of the collective action of a concrete society. We understand transcendence, the active principle that allows dialogue between that society and normativity with its corresponding aspiration, ideal, or immanent content, in an exchange that propitiates in a permanent way the assimilation of society as a process, not static and in harmony. These categories, as referents of analysis, allow us to situate today's societal life in investigative perspectives that reveal its limits and successes, the comprehensive inheritances, and what is necessary to assimilate or to discard in games of political experiences for a better tuning with a specific context of contemporary social relations. They act as an epistemological understanding of the present that shows the need for a change of analytical look when examining the social constitutive principles, which is a necessity rather than an alternative.