Más allá de la paz

Abstract

A   peace   treaty   could   be   seen   as   the   synthesis   of   the   political

dream   of   the   Enlightenment.   Political   theory   linked   to   that

dream  cannot  be  considered  independently  of   the   ontology

of  that  period,  especially  regardless  of  the  organ  systems  as

they   have   come   to   be   theorized   from   Kant'ʹs   Critique   of

Judgment   until   today.   A   consideration   of   the   evolution   of

that  theorization   shows  that  the  increasing  complexity  of  the

system   made   by   the   State   requires   of   its   members   an

increased   energy   supply   too,   to   the   point   that   this   growth

would   be   unsustainable   were   it   not   for   the   existence   of   an

opposite   trend:   the   disaggregation   or   destruction   of   the

system.  The  utopia  of  peace   is  as  aggressive  as  its  opposite.

The  state  can  only  be  understood  from  the  point  of  view  of

the   necessary   ambivalence   of   the   forces   involved   in   its

maintenance,   which   we   can   find   excellently   theorized   in

Freud’s  notion  of  that  drive  which  is,  at  the  same   time,  that

of  life  and  death.