DESPUÉS DEL SIGUIENTE GENOCIDIO: EL MODERNISMO REACCIONARIO Y EL DESAFÍO POSTMODERNO A LA ÉTICA ANALÍTICA. RECORDANDO A BILL ROSEBERRY

El presente ensayo busca profundizar nuestro sentido de los fundamentos filosóficos y de las implicaciones éticas de la crítica de Bill Roseberry de lo que el consideró antropologías sospechosas, capaces de distorsionar la violencia en las articulaciones de poder hegemónicamente culturalizadas. El argumento pondera en forma sucesiva: i) el interés de Roseberry y su ubicación en el marco modernista/ postmodernista; ii) un reexamen de las raíces históricas (medievales) del modernismo y una caracterización del modernismo reaccionario; iii) la doble historia de los conceptos mentales modernistas y modernistas reaccionarios con un enfoque en las conceptualizaciones simbólico- accionistas geertzianas y otras conceptualizaciones densas en las ciencias sociales cognitivas sostenidas en las construcciones analítico-filosóficas (Quine, Ryle, et al.); iv) una crítica del fracaso de un recordar adecuado (es decir, una dimensión histórica) en estas formulaciones; v) la intervención de Bill Roseberry en contra de las clausuras dualistas requeridas por los modelos simbólico-accionistas con conceptualizaciones efectivas de hegemonía y contrahegemonía; y, vi) una visión del modernismo ético de Roseberry que contrasta con las éticas de concepto denso del modernismo reaccionario y las antropologías históricas circulares y supresoras de evidencia que estas últimas facultan

Labour service and surplus in the Prussian „Gutswirtschaft"

The contribution of the Junkerherrschaft, the Prussian manorial system east of the river Elbe, to the modernization of Germany in the late nineteenth century has been an ongoing subject of historical debate for decades. By discussing a series of articles by William Hagen, the author challenges Hagen's thesis, according to which landlords as well as their subject peasants benefitted from changes within the Prussian manorial system of the seventeenth century, a mutually satisfactory bargain, in the course of which the peasants accepted a higher rate of labour services for a reduction in rental dues. Hagen's argument, that the decrease in rents and the increase in labour services meant an advantage for both peasants and landlords is dismantled by Rebel, who by reevaluating and reinterpreting Hagen's own evidence sketches a picture of drastic disadvantages which the peasants had to face under the new arrangement of increased labor services. Applying Eric Wolf's model of historical social relations, Rebel then sets out to show the effect of these developments in the sphere of family formation of the aristocratic dynasty and the peasant household. Dictated by the labor need of the manorial estates the latter are forced to constitute themselves in pseudo- and ad-hoc-families, which have to make unending choices of exclusion and dispossession of „uneconomical" and marginal family members. According to Rebel a pattern is developing, a hidden war between those who like the aristocracy form dynastic families and those who like the peasants cannot form families that last.The contribution of the Junkerherrschaft, the Prussian manorial system east of the river Elbe, to the modernization of Germany in the late nineteenth century has been an ongoing subject of historical debate for decades. By discussing a series of articles by William Hagen, the author challenges Hagen's thesis, according to which landlords as well as their subject peasants benefitted from changes within the Prussian manorial system of the seventeenth century, a mutually satisfactory bargain, in the course of which the peasants accepted a higher rate of labour services for a reduction in rental dues. Hagen's argument, that the decrease in rents and the increase in labour services meant an advantage for both peasants and landlords is dismantled by Rebel, who by reevaluating and reinterpreting Hagen's own evidence sketches a picture of drastic disadvantages which the peasants had to face under the new arrangement of increased labor services. Applying Eric Wolf's model of historical social relations, Rebel then sets out to show the effect of these developments in the sphere of family formation of the aristocratic dynasty and the peasant household. Dictated by the labor need of the manorial estates the latter are forced to constitute themselves in pseudo- and ad-hoc-families, which have to make unending choices of exclusion and dispossession of „uneconomical" and marginal family members. According to Rebel a pattern is developing, a hidden war between those who like the aristocracy form dynastic families and those who like the peasants cannot form families that last