Publication: La fundación Saint-Simón y el debate sobre la modernización en Francia: las pautas de una vocación homogeneizadora
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2006
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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La Fundación Saint-Simon, una asociación a medio camino entre los Think tank anglosajones y los clubes de cooptación franceses, trató, durante sus dieciocho años de existencia (1982-1999), de construir puentes entre políticos de derecha e izquierda moderada, empresarios, intelectuales, académicos e ideólogos políticos. Su objetivo sería un proyecto intelectual de reforma de la sociedad traída por unas elites que pretenden encarnar el bien común, en la línea de lo planteado por Pierre Rosanvallon, uno de sus máximos representantes, en el sentido de que, lo más urgente era producir ideas, elaborar proyectos, formular diagnósticos. Este artículo tiene como principal objetivo ofrecer una visión general de una asociación —con especial incidencia en sus fines, funcionamiento e influencia— que, reagrupando siempre a intelectuales, altos funcionarios e industriales intentó permanecer como un ámbito de iniciativas para formular proyectos orientados a una mejor inteligibilidad de nuestras sociedades contemporáneas. Se trataba de auspiciar un espacio para la elaboración y difusión de nuevas maneras de percibir el mundo social. Y así fue: allí se modelarían visiones compartidas de la sociedad que acabarían por abarcar una gran cantidad de cuestiones, con unas conclusiones que —pese a no ser jamás verificadas científicamente o llevadas al menos a la práctica— acabarán deviniendo en evidencias indiscutibles, en el contexto de una sociedad que se quiere plenamente homogeneizada.
The Saint-Simon Foundation, an association halfway between the Anglo-Saxon Think tank and the French clubs of co-optation, tried to construct bridges between right-wing politicians and moderate left, industrialists, intellectuals, academic and political ideologists during its eighteen years of existence. Its objective was to be an intellectual project of reform of the society brought by elites that tried to incarnate the common good, in the manner the raised by Pierre Rosanvallon, one of its maximum representatives, in the sense that, the most urgent thing was to produce ideas, to elaborate projects, to formulate diagnoses. The main objective of this article is to offer a general vision of an association —most especially of its aims, working mode and influence that tried to remain a space of initiatives to formulate oriented projects towards a better intelligibility of our contemporary societies be always gathering together intellectuals, high civil employees and industrialists. The idea was to create a space of elaboration of new ways to perceive the social world. And this is what happened: shared visions of society would eventually model a high amount of topics, with conclusions that will become unquestionable evidence in the context of a society in the search of complete homogeneity which will never be scientifically verified nor put into practice.
The Saint-Simon Foundation, an association halfway between the Anglo-Saxon Think tank and the French clubs of co-optation, tried to construct bridges between right-wing politicians and moderate left, industrialists, intellectuals, academic and political ideologists during its eighteen years of existence. Its objective was to be an intellectual project of reform of the society brought by elites that tried to incarnate the common good, in the manner the raised by Pierre Rosanvallon, one of its maximum representatives, in the sense that, the most urgent thing was to produce ideas, to elaborate projects, to formulate diagnoses. The main objective of this article is to offer a general vision of an association —most especially of its aims, working mode and influence that tried to remain a space of initiatives to formulate oriented projects towards a better intelligibility of our contemporary societies be always gathering together intellectuals, high civil employees and industrialists. The idea was to create a space of elaboration of new ways to perceive the social world. And this is what happened: shared visions of society would eventually model a high amount of topics, with conclusions that will become unquestionable evidence in the context of a society in the search of complete homogeneity which will never be scientifically verified nor put into practice.
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Sistemas políticos, Teorías políticas, Cambio social, Desarrollo económico, Historia económica
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5907 Sistemas Políticos, 5908 Teoría Política, 6307 Cambio y desarrollo Social, 5307.03 Modelos y Teorías del desarrollo Económico, 5307.04 Estudios del desarrollo Económico, 5506.06 Historia de la Economía