Abstract

HAIDAR, Victoria. RECONSTRUYENDO EL PENSAMIENTO LATINOAMERICANO ACERCA DE LA DEMOCRACIA: LOS APORTES DE GINO GERMANI Y DE CARLOS COSSIO A LOS DEBATES ACERCA DE LA OPINIÓN PÚBLICA. Postdata [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.1, pp.1-19. ISSN 1851-9601.

This article rebuilds and puts in dialogue the contributions made by Gino Germani and Carlos Cossio, between the 1940s and 1960s, to discussions about public opin-ion, engaging from Latin America, in the problematization of democracy. Through the analysis of a corpus of texts we show how both authors put in question the “en-lightenment” notion of public opinion, noting the shifts and continuities that in-volve the reflections about it. By submit-ting to critics and review this conception, the work of both authors contribute to imagine the public spheres that were pos-sible in mass society. Their ideas about public opinion nourish, as we argue, the project of a liberal representative democ-racy with full participation of people, sup-ported by a pluralistic public life. To that extent, those ideas allow differentiate the thought of Germani and Cossio from the leftist Latin American thought, as from the reactionary and liberal-conservative positions.

Keywords : Public Opinion - Democracy - Liberalism - Germani - Cossio.

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