Fear, the other, the end. Legal violences, deadly violences

• Main Author: Patxi Lanceros
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Pontificia Comillas 2017-01-01
• Series: Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica
• Subjects: democracia; violencia; inmigración; miedo; xenofobia
• Online Access: https://revistas.upcomillas.es/index.php/pensamiento/article/view/7636

This paper aims to give an account of the difficulties that western democracies are going through in this globalization’s time, undergoing the stress that causes the double pressure of two factors: a growing fear which causes lie on the confluence of financial capitalism and liberal hegemony (with the output of insecurity they both cause), and the confrontation, that increasingly adopts more worrying forms, with diverse kind and grades or otherness: human masses of displaced persons or expulsed of their residences and hounded by economic, cultural or political motivations, that do not find refuge nowhere and becoming hostility and disdain.