Society, paradigms & intellectuals

Authors

  • Víctor Carranza Elguera Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31381/pluriversidad.v3i3.2235

Keywords:

Society, intellectual paradigm, culture, dogma.

Abstract

The objectives of this paper are to explore and describe how social relations sustain the creation of particular paradigms and those of their own intellectuals. In this sense, it is relevant to show situations in which the economic and political interests of the state powers demanded the cultural domain to strengthen social cohesion. For this reason, historical cases, that explain the causal relationship between religion and morality, are presented. These causal relations, formalized at the level of dogma, inhibited the creative development of knowledge and, therefore, the economy and politics. We warn that the dogmatic culture, which dominated and continues to dominate the global social panorama, could not avoid dissidence. In the historical route of this dissidence, in favour of the reason and the truth, heretics will be pointed out, also free thinkers and intellectuals. A key question: what is the margin of autonomy of Peruvian intellectuals to recreate the «regimes of truth» that become hegemonic governments in our society?

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Author Biography

Víctor Carranza Elguera, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería

Economista y Doctor en Ciencias Sociales. Ha sido Presidente (e) del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica (CONCYTEC) y se desempeña como profesor principal de pre y posgrado de la Facultad de Ingeniería Económica, Estadísticas y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería. Ha publicado el libro Perú: Ciencia, tecnología e innovación social (Hechos, redes de poder y discursos).

Published

2019-09-09

How to Cite

Carranza Elguera, V. (2019). Society, paradigms & intellectuals. PLURIVERSIDAD, 3(3), 65–75. https://doi.org/10.31381/pluriversidad.v3i3.2235

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