Publication: Ensayo histórico sobre la idea de imperio
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Fernández Riquelme, Sergio
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Magistra Vitae
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© 2024, Magistra Vitae. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in La Razón Histórica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Historia de las Ideas.
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Los imperios atraen o asustan, como poder superior y mediador o como fuerza expansionista y dominante. Una palabra, un concepto y un ideal político y geopolítico que, con distintos nombres y expresiones, ha cruzado y cruzará la historia de la humanidad, generando adeptos o provocando sublevaciones. Del césar indiscutible al que imitar a la plutocracia que influye decisivamente no siempre en las sombras. Así se puede hablar del imperio como forma política suprema ordenadora, para bien o para mal en un tiempo y un lugar, desde su origen en el tiempos romanos hasta su evolución como investidura real o simbólica, y como forma metapolítica que explica la potencia desatada por pueblos y elites que, entre la invasión y el acuerdo, se convierte en la majestad superior a la que obedecer, a la que recurrir o contra la que luchar en el espacio vital donde surge y donde se expande. Este es, pues, un ensayo histórico sobre una idea crucial, ahora y siempre, para entender creencias y actos que fundamentaron y legitimaron la aspiración al dominio del mundo, en el gran espacio soñado o al alcance.
Abstract. Empires attract or frighten,
Empires attract or frighten, as a superior and mediating power or as an expan sionist and dominant force. A word, a concept and a political and geopolitical ideal that, with different names and expressions, has crossed and will continue to cross the history of humanity, generating followers or provoking uprisings. From the indisputable Caesar to imitate to the plutocracy that has a decisive influence, not always in the shadows. Thus we can speak of the empire as a supreme ordering political form, for better or worse in a time and place, from its origin in Roman times to its evolution as a royal or symbolic investiture, and as a metapolitical form that explains the power unleashed by peoples and elites that, between the invasion and the agreement, becomes the superior majesty to obey, to which to resort or to fight against in the vital space where it arises and where it expands. This is, then, a historical essay on a crucial idea, now and always, to understand beliefs and acts that founded and legitimized the aspiration to dominate the world, in the great space dreamed of or within reach.
Empires attract or frighten, as a superior and mediating power or as an expan sionist and dominant force. A word, a concept and a political and geopolitical ideal that, with different names and expressions, has crossed and will continue to cross the history of humanity, generating followers or provoking uprisings. From the indisputable Caesar to imitate to the plutocracy that has a decisive influence, not always in the shadows. Thus we can speak of the empire as a supreme ordering political form, for better or worse in a time and place, from its origin in Roman times to its evolution as a royal or symbolic investiture, and as a metapolitical form that explains the power unleashed by peoples and elites that, between the invasion and the agreement, becomes the superior majesty to obey, to which to resort or to fight against in the vital space where it arises and where it expands. This is, then, a historical essay on a crucial idea, now and always, to understand beliefs and acts that founded and legitimized the aspiration to dominate the world, in the great space dreamed of or within reach.
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