The Centre for Modern Thought

Republicanism and imperialism, as essential pathways into the study of the real political in our age, lack a third term, neither republican nor imperial, without which no understanding of political process could ever approach fruition: populism.    If our research line on Republicanism seeks to study the traces of anti-substantialist and non-subjectivist political thought throughout history, that is, to develop the possibility of a thought of the political that does not have to found itself on secularized theological elements, a complementary research line on Populism looks at the substantialist and subjectivist phenomena that determine every understanding of politics as a politics of hegemony, that is, a politics based on a paternal order of domination.  A first workshop on Populism is contemplated, in consortium with another British institution, for May or June 2009.