Including in the same book philosophical essays and political essays may seem at first sight an extravagance or nonsense, if the first matter is understood as mere speculation without handle with reality and the second is clinging to the pure facts without possibility Some of the flight. However, the experience has a long and fruitful history, both in American pragmatism, from James and Dewey to Rorty and Quine, and in the German doctrine itself, with figures such as Adorno, Horkheimer and Habermas. Overflying each other, the extraordinary presence of the British Russell. And it is that between philosophical reflection and political analysis there is no insuperable incompatibility, but rather dialectical closeness, insofar as one and the other move within the realm of logical parameters and have to resort to mental operations of very similar, if not Equal, rational texture. Thus, when...read more