Challengers of the State and Unsubmissive to the Contract
Liberty to appeal, resistance, and struggles for the construction of a new social contract in the post-conflict.
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.esde.v80n175a07Keywords:
Social contract, State challenge, Social pact, Agonal contractualism, armed post-conflict, new social ordersAbstract
Under what circumstances could the social contract be the result of the political challenge? Is agonal contractualism an alternative for societies transitioning from the armed state challenge to the post-conflict? In contrast to critical statements of classical contractualism, what it is called in this work as agonal contractualism suggests the recognition of the political challenge as a path for achieving alternative ways to the social contract.
For this, the article analyzes, first, the factors involved in the political challenge and its potential impacts on the social contract following the classics of contractual theory: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau; second, it identifies the limitations of the contractual approach regarding the role of the State challengers. Finally, it argues why in contemporary societies the political contest could represent an alternative way to moving from the “elimination” of the unsubmissive to a new type of agonal contractualism. At the same time, the article responds to current alternatives such as contractual solidarism.
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