Grand narratives then and now: can we still conceptualise history?

Reading the Communist Manifesto today, it is impossible not to be struck by the confidence with which it conceptualises history. The positive energy of this bold grand narrative stands in such stark contrast to the negative and jaded mentality of our times, which conceives of grand narratives only to tell us that there can be none. Such talk as there is of history today is more likely to be of "the end of history". There are three senses in which references to the end of history feature in contemporary debates: apocalyptic prediction, postmodernist pronouncement and capitalist triumphalism. This paper addresses the crisis of historicity in our time in relation to these positions and asks what is it about our age that produces them. It explores the widespread rejection of grand narratives, as well as grand narratives, which nevertheless persist, implicit and explicit, right and left. It looks at the position of marxism in the 1990s, counterposing it to postmarxism and postmodernism in particular on the question of grand narratives. It calls for resistance to the detotalising pressures of the age and revival of a totalising (as opposed to totalised) philosophy of history

The unrestraint stock market action

No abstractThis article of the Nobel prizewinner German writer refers to the role of the stock market in the globalizing economy of our times and the inability of the elected parliaments to resits the imposition of the interests of the capital against the interests of the people. If the democratically elected parliaments do not assume their responsibilities and if we al do not exercise our sovereign right to resist to the unrestraint power of capital, then our future will be uncertain and every regression to situations we thought had irrevocably passed will become possible

Création graphique et genèse du texte. Entretien avec Bernhild Boie

Grass Günter, Boie Bernhild. Création graphique et genèse du texte. Entretien avec Bernhild Boie. In: Genesis (Manuscrits-Recherche-Invention), numéro 10, 1996. Sémiotique / Louis Hay. pp. 123-134

La tradición de "abrir el hocico"

Pierre Bourdieu, sociólogo francés, y Günter Grass, escritor alemán premio Nobel de literatura 1999, tuvieron un encuentro público el 5 de diciembre del mismo año. En él defienden el papel del intelectual comprometido