Struggles for Cultural Unity: Historical Significance, Places of Enunciation and Production of Underlying Languages

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reconstruct the notion of common sense as a desire to crystallize an era. It will identify the way in which cultural representations change over time and how their articulation generates material effects in the consolidation of the epistemic order and in the regulation of the social conflict from which it is not possible to escape. To answer this question, the genealogy of political languages will be used, according to the contributions of José Luis Villacañas, Elías Palti and Santiago Castro-Gómez, in order to examine the arrangements around the struggles for truth and their guiding effect on the social body. The article proposes a renewed understanding of historical knowledge, of cultural consciousness and of the significance that legitimizes truth, understanding that the consciousness of the era is not only a theory, but a know-how inscribed in pragmatic contexts. It is shown that empirical remains and the operations of myth transcend mere theory by being incorporated into the world and culture, crystallizing through historical phenomenology and historiography. This “good relationship” is identified as the best strategy to understand the “modern galaxy”.