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Innerarity, Daniel

4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

El País - Spain | 07/09/2007

Daniel Innerarity considers the left has become conservative

Professor of philosophy Daniel Innerarity considers that the left should 'overcome pessimism'. "The left sees today's world as a machine that needs to be slowed down and not as a source of opportunities and instruments that could serve its own values, those of justice and equality. Socialism today considers itself the repairer of inequalities and liberal society. It claims to protect what is under threat of destruction, but it proposes no alternative solution. ... The 21st century's left needs to distinguish itself from the alter-globalist movement, which does not mean that there are not serious problems that need to be resolved, but that it should avoid the lethargy consisting in deploring its lack on of influence in the world. Instead of saying that another world is possible, the left needs to think-up a new way of conceiving it, of making an impact on it."

El País - Spain | 08/03/2007

Where is woman's place in politics ?

The Spanish professor of philosophy, Daniel Innerarity, analyses the way women are perceived in politics. "Michelle Perrot [French historian] has explained that the difference between men and women lies in the fact that only man is considered an individual, that is to say someone whose gender is transparent, who has freed himself from the group he belongs to and become what he makes of himself . The exclusion of women has operated by depriving women, literally and symbolically, of this individualisation. This is why the question of identity only comes up when a female candidate comes into the picture ... . Man not only has possibilities of personal fulfilment because of the absence of discrimination, but because it is recognised that his worthiness only depends on what he does and the competency he acquires. According to the traditional role given to women, women are attributed characteristics that do not allow them to escape their condition: a woman, even the most intelligent and successful, will always be considered 'a woman' who has known success, while a man is 'someone' who has succeeded."

Le Monde - France | 24/10/2006

Daniel Innerarity for a realistic left

The Spanish professor of philosophy, Daniel Innerarity, from the University of Saragossa, rejects the usual "division of labour" between the right and the left. "It would befall the right to efficiently deal with reality and the left to enjoy the monopoly of unreality, on a level where there is no competition, that of values, utopias and illusions. It is this easy partitioning that is at the root of a general crisis in politics ... The fundamental political question is not so much one of ideals and utopian projects, but that of what we consider to be real. In this case, the best thing the left can do facing a conservative concept of politics, is to fight it on the level of reality, discussing its conception of reality. … a battle cannot be won by vaguely evoking another possible world, but by fighting to define reality in a new way."

El País - Spain | 22/02/2006

Communication and political confrontation

Daniel Innerarity, a philsophy professor, deciphers the rules of political confrontation. "Ritualised antagonism, at once elementary and predictable, transforms politics into a combat in which the objective is not to debate precise themes or achieve desired goals, but to showcase the necessary disagreements that allow one to maintain or win power. ... To truly understand what is at stake, one must consider the fact that the litigants are not speaking among themselves, but are addressing the public for whose support they are vying. The communication between the politicians themselves if a sham. It merely provides an opportunity to score points with the public, the real targets of this performance. The objective is not to discuss things with one's opponent or attempt to change his mind, but to turn speeches into a sort of plebiscite, and win over the public."

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