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's 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