Cartografías políticas del yo: más allá del sujeto soberano y del sujeto constructo en la teoría política contemporánea

Abstract

In the present article two dominant conceptions will be addressed about the political subject notion: the sovereign subjectand the constructed subject. These two antagonistic conceptions, will be traced in two of the most important authors in contemporary political theory: Louis Althusser and John Rawls. While Rawls subscribes to sovereign subject, where the individual presents itself in rationality and uniqueness that allows him to enjoy certain amount of autonomy regarding the material determinations and to be the founder of fair social institutions, the french thinker instead, with its secondment to the materialistic field of the constructed subject, conceives the subject as a materiality resulted of the domination. To examine these two notions will be the main objective of this article, along with the possibility of trying to go further these two tendencies through the search for an alternative notion of subject.