Abstract

GARZON VALLEJO, Iván  and  RAMIREZ SARMIENTO, Diana María. Cold War in the Classroom: The Canon of Contemporary Political Theory in Colombia. Civilizar [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.39, pp.85-98.  Epub Oct 17, 2021. ISSN 1657-8953.  https://doi.org/10.22518/jour.ccsh/2020.2a05.

This paper aimed to identify the existence of a canon of authors, schools and subjects in the teaching of contemporary political theory in the undergraduate programs of Political Sciences currently taught in Colombia. From this canon it was formulated a diagnosis of the main approaches and theories in the teaching of contemporary political theory, taking as analysis criteria the way that the canon resolve four epistemological tensions in the sub-discipline: monism vs. pluralism, local vs. global, modernity vs. post-modernity, and disciplinary vs. interdisciplinary. This analysis allowed to conclude that the canon is characterized by a pluralistic, interdisciplinary, local, and modern perspective, and demonstrates a process of redefinition of its problematic borders as well as a relatively refractory spirit to the influx of the Anglo-Saxon political theory.

Keywords : Political Science; Political Theory; Latin America; Colombia; John Rawls..

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