José Luis L. Aranguren: a critique of democracy and the left
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This article proceeds in three stages. First, I present the critical vision of the Spanish philosopher José Luis L. Aranguren (1909-96) on the type of democracy established in Spain and in the West and his proposal for a “democracy like a morality”. Secondly, I discuss the role that a true political left should play, according to Aranguren,
in a democracy and, starting out from the key concept of heterodoxy – in this case
conceived as deidentification –, I offer some reflections on the nature of the left and the
political claims of identity. Finally, by way of conclusion, I point to a possible dialogue
between Arangurian thinking and current debates on democracy and the politics of
identity.
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