The historical and utopian in Luis Villoro´s political proposal

Abstract

This paper discusses the recent work written by the Mexican philosopher Luis Villoro (born in 1922). It proposes to investigate the production made by this author, which is based on the historical contexts in which it participates. It also analyzes his proposed program in relation to the Zapatista movement in the late twentieth century. The approach of the work will be done from the methodology developed by Arturo Roig from the field of the History of Latin American Ideas, by which the written text appears immersed in the context of the production itself. These tools allow to read the “other speeches”, the underground voices. Thus, the social contradiction is present in Villoro´s work. This theoretical and methodological position will analyze how the Mexican uses historical examples – either from the past or the present – that allow him to develop a theory about the social change, which will consolidate the idea of plural state. The intellectual will achieve conceptually deconstruct the state emerged after the Mexican Revolution, a typical case of modern nation-state, using concrete social experiences that challenge it, such as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.