The Social Contract in Rousseau: An Analysis Based on Girardian Mimetic Theory

Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, successive reformulations of the social contract developed from the Hobbesian proposal, categorized today under the label of classical contractualism. Within such proposals, it is argued that it was with Rousseau that the social contract reached i...

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Autor principal: Valenzuela Corales, Maria de Los Andes
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Publicado: ARFIL y UNL 2023
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Chivo expiatorio
Contractualismo
Estado
Teoría mimética
Violencia
Scapegoat
Contractualism
State
Mimetic Theory
Violence
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spelling I26-R133-article-106572025-10-16T16:34:32Z The Social Contract in Rousseau: An Analysis Based on Girardian Mimetic Theory El contrato social en Rousseau: Un análisis a partir de la teoría mimética girardiana Valenzuela Corales, Maria de Los Andes Chivo expiatorio Contractualismo Estado Teoría mimética Violencia Scapegoat Contractualism State Mimetic Theory Violence Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, successive reformulations of the social contract developed from the Hobbesian proposal, categorized today under the label of classical contractualism. Within such proposals, it is argued that it was with Rousseau that the social contract reached its moment of full maturity, rationalizing and deepening its democratic consequences. Thus, the social contract is -within political philosophy- the most significant element to support the theory of the modern state. However, an important consequence of this theorization is the fact that the nascent modern State holds for itself the monopoly of violence. Thus, it is possible that an obscure undercurrent of violence is hidden behind the contractualist formulation. The following article aims to develop an analysis of the social contract theory, particularly in Rousseau's formulation, based on René Girard's mimetic theory, with the objective of finding in his most representative work, The Social Contract, traces of the mimetic violence and the scapegoat mechanism proposed in Girard's theory. A lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII se desarrollaron sucesivas reformulaciones del contrato social a partir de la propuesta hobbesiana, categorizadas hoy en día bajo el rótulo de contractualismo clásico. Dentro de tales propuestas se sostiene que fue con Rousseau con quien el contrato social alcanzó su momento de plena madurez, racionalizándose y profundizándose sus consecuencias democráticas. Así pues, el contrato social es —dentro de la filosofía política— el elemento más significativo para sustentar la teoría del Estado moderno. Sin embargo, una importante consecuencia de dicha teorización es el hecho de que el naciente Estado moderno detente para sí el monopolio de la violencia. Así pues, es posible que un obscuro trasfondo de violencia se oculte tras la formulación contractualista. El artículo que sigue pretende desarrollar un análisis de la teoría del contrato social, particularmente en la formulación de Rousseau, a partir de la teoría mimética de René Girard, con el objetivo de encontrar en su obra más representativa El contrato social, rastros de la violencia mimética y el mecanismo de chivo expiatorio planteados en la teoría girardiana. ARFIL y UNL 2023-11-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/epub+zip https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/10657 10.14409/topicos.2023.45.e0052 Tópicos. Revista de Filosofía de Santa Fe; No. 45 (2023): Tópicos. Revista de Filosofía de Santa Fe; e0052 Tópicos. Revista de Filosofía de Santa Fe; Núm. 45 (2023): Tópicos. Revista de Filosofía de Santa Fe; e0052 1668-723X 1666-485X 10.14409/topicos.2023.45 es https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/10657/18066 https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/10657/18067 Derechos de autor 2023 Maria de Los Andes Valenzuela Corales https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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topic Chivo expiatorio
Contractualismo
Estado
Teoría mimética
Violencia
Scapegoat
Contractualism
State
Mimetic Theory
Violence
spellingShingle Chivo expiatorio
Contractualismo
Estado
Teoría mimética
Violencia
Scapegoat
Contractualism
State
Mimetic Theory
Violence
Valenzuela Corales, Maria de Los Andes
The Social Contract in Rousseau: An Analysis Based on Girardian Mimetic Theory
topic_facet Chivo expiatorio
Contractualismo
Estado
Teoría mimética
Violencia
Scapegoat
Contractualism
State
Mimetic Theory
Violence
author Valenzuela Corales, Maria de Los Andes
author_facet Valenzuela Corales, Maria de Los Andes
author_sort Valenzuela Corales, Maria de Los Andes
title The Social Contract in Rousseau: An Analysis Based on Girardian Mimetic Theory
title_short The Social Contract in Rousseau: An Analysis Based on Girardian Mimetic Theory
title_full The Social Contract in Rousseau: An Analysis Based on Girardian Mimetic Theory
title_fullStr The Social Contract in Rousseau: An Analysis Based on Girardian Mimetic Theory
title_full_unstemmed The Social Contract in Rousseau: An Analysis Based on Girardian Mimetic Theory
title_sort social contract in rousseau: an analysis based on girardian mimetic theory
description Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, successive reformulations of the social contract developed from the Hobbesian proposal, categorized today under the label of classical contractualism. Within such proposals, it is argued that it was with Rousseau that the social contract reached its moment of full maturity, rationalizing and deepening its democratic consequences. Thus, the social contract is -within political philosophy- the most significant element to support the theory of the modern state. However, an important consequence of this theorization is the fact that the nascent modern State holds for itself the monopoly of violence. Thus, it is possible that an obscure undercurrent of violence is hidden behind the contractualist formulation. The following article aims to develop an analysis of the social contract theory, particularly in Rousseau's formulation, based on René Girard's mimetic theory, with the objective of finding in his most representative work, The Social Contract, traces of the mimetic violence and the scapegoat mechanism proposed in Girard's theory.
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