SO IN HEAVEN AS ON EARTH. FUNDAMENTAL GUIDELINES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNEQUAL POLITICAL ORDER

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to perform an interpretative analysis of the policy proposal contained in the work Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina of Juan Bautista Alberdi, in the light of fundamental concepts of contemporary political theory of Hannah Arendt, Jacques Rancière and Carl Schmitt.

The article examines the strategies of the Argentine jurist to end the civil war in the country and to establish a constitution that guarantees the foundation of a legitimate order. In this context, it is observed the differentiation of successive stages, complementary, but irreversible, in the process of independence and consolidation of the Argentine nation; the redefinition of concepts and the delimitation of identities and roles necessary and useful, with respect to those dispensable or disposable. In summary, Alberdi's work foresees the substitution of the politics for the economy in order to establish in the Argentina the conditions for the institutionalization of a political republican regime, which in his case corresponds with the restoration of an unequal and depoliticized society.