On the Discourse of Regulae and the Modern Methodical Spirit [Spanish]

Authors

  • Juan Antonio González de Requena Farré Austral University of Chile image/svg+xml

Keywords:

rules, Protestantism, Jesuit spirituality, methodical thought, rationalism

Abstract

 

Giorgio Agamben has characterized the monastic rules as the constitution of a way of life in which —beyond the law— the rule and the life become indiscernible. In this article we accept the invitation of Agamben to trace the semantic history of the lexicon of the rule and we wonder what happened when, in the first Modernity, the rules were extrapolated to the complete plot of the world of life, as in the methodical spirituality of Protestants and Jesuits. Through the analysis of one genre of discourse that illustrates the normative framing of modern practices in Protestant and Jesuit environments, the baroque books of regulae, we characterize a certain discursive and semiotic regime that served as a framework for modern methodical thought and its analytical rationalism.

 

Author Biography

  • Juan Antonio González de Requena Farré, Austral University of Chile

     

    Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y trabaja como profesor asociado del Instituto de Psicología de la Universidad Austral de Chile, Sede Puerto Montt. Investiga primordialmente en los campos de la Filosofía política y la Retórica, ámbitos en los cuales ha desarrollado proyectos financiados y ha publicado artículos en distintas revistas latinoamericanas.

     

Published

2020-03-04

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