Presentación del libro: Entre la Soberbia y la Incertidumbre de Sadio Garavini di Turno.

 

 

 

El ex diplomático y escritor venezolano Sadio Garavini di Turno presenta este 24 de marzo en la Librería El Buscón, en Caracas, Venezuela, su más reciente libro Entre la Soberbia y la Incertidumbre bellamente editado por Random House Mondadori. La portada del libro evoca el temperamento clásico del escritor liberal que es Sadio. Un libro indispensable, que animará sin lugar a dudas, la plaza pública de los demócratas en Venezuela. Enhorabuena Sadio.

Ciudad de México a 11 de marzo de 2011

Sobre la presentación de mi próxima publicación en obra colectiva.

Actores, instituciones y procesos políticos: textos de sociología política, obra publicada por el Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, en su área de investigación de sociología política. Investigación realizada por estudiantes e investigadores en el Departamento de Posgrado en Maestría de Sociología Política.

The Science of Politics. An introduction by Josep M. Colomer

Political Scientist Josep M. Colomer has announced the release of his new textbook entitled The Science of Politics. An introduction, published under the imprint of Oxford University Press (2011). In his essay Implications from the disequilibrium of Mayority Rule for the study of Institutions, William H. Riker argued from a historical perspective, that Aristotle was interested in the study of institutions. The Greek philosopher argued that constitutions set the quality of social outcomes and also the moral character of individuals. Riker while warning us that the intellectuals of the time showed little interest in the study of medieval theologians which outlined his idea that Christianity first gave weight to the moral quality of individuals. – and by extension in the exercise of political rulers – and the quality of social outcomes in the Christian order depended on the moral quality of the rulers. Hence the clear understanding of the explanation Riker was the poet Thomas S. Eliot, in the essay The idea of a Christian Society (1940), the crisis of values in the Western world on the threshold of the first half of the twentieth century.

           

In his introduction to The Science of Politics Josep M. Colomer traces his idea of political science research grounded in regularities through the measurement of cases. The idea of research on the regularity of patterns in the performance of different institutions such as political action, polity, the electoral system and government, has as its background the idea of science, especially the science of classical physics. Following the Anglo-Saxon tradition of analytical philosophy, I am thinking in Bertrand Russell, Colomer us in this introduction thirty propositions by way axioms of political science. Of course without the broad philosophical and historical perspective Riker. Colomer should be read within a wider cultural context, where history, philosophy and political science tend communicating vessels of knowledge. Never mind that the orthodox accuse us of heresy.