Guanajuato, Gto., January 31, 2017.- Dr. Andrés Rolandelli, professor of Political Theory, specialist in subjects of safety and coordinator of the Institute of Latin American Cooperation of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina; presented in UG his book "Carl Schmitt and the modern drift", invited by the Department of Political Studies of the Division of Law, Politics and Government (DDPG) of Campus Guanajuato.

The text on the controversial German jurist and philosopher for his affiliation to the national socialist party, analyzes his most renowned works: "Political theology", "Concept of politics", "Political romanticism", "Catholicism and political form" and "Earth's nomos".

Rolandelli exposed that the main axis of concern is that he considers Schmitt as a "propaedeutic" in philosophical terms: a form of apprehension of an object "and certainly everything Schmitt says is true, there will be pattern and how he relates the link to Nazism, if it was opportunism or nor and he was also part of the catholic conservatism."

But with all the criticism and controversy that can have, he cleared, you must distinguish what conservatism is with the national socialism, not all the conservative was Nazi and it's not about justifying, since you can understand the repulsion of Nazism, but he considers what the philosopher looked for, was to rationalize the legal chaos of Nazism: "he was a jurist concerned for the man and how he understood the construction in that order, certainly controversial for his political biography."

In his comments about the book, Dr. Carlos Cordourier Real, Director of the Department of Political Studies, observed that for the last three decades, the interest for the work of the philosopher and jurist Carl Schmitt has grown, whose reflections associate frequently with political conservatism and at first sight an irony on the social and political theory that has shown a greater interest –even vehemence—in his rehabilitation, comes from currents on what can be classified as a thought of left, particularly the Italian left in the 80s.

But it is only an apparent irony, cleared Dr. Cordourier, since Schmitt's work and the left thought are brothers by an animadversion towards three magnus artifacts if modernity: individualism, liberalism and representative democracy.

He was a thorough theorist, but he didn't develop a comprehensive philosophical system, said the scholar, who pointed out that despite its intellectual production, he has a value of the politic, as an appeal and a warning: the political has peculiar criteria and autonomous objectives that serve not only to identify or distinguish it, but to clearly comprehend the phenomena as essentially different to what are in economy, the moral or the aesthetic.

The text was also commented by Dr. Miguel Vilches Hinojosa and Dr. Francisco Miguel Mora Sifuentes, moderated by Dr. Jesús Aguilar López.

Latin America in the Trump era

Likewise, in a separate encounter with the university community, Dr. Andrés Rolandelli dictated the conference "Latin America in the Trump era. Challenges and Perspectives", --to which a numerous crowd attended, particularly students of the Department of Political Studies—that had the commentaries of Dr. Daniel Añorve Añorve, professor of such department, same as Dr. Ericka López Sánchez, who moderated the presentation.

Dr. Rolandelli explained what is happening in United States, as amazing it may be with the Trump case, is a trend that was registering in the last lustrums: the emergency of logics that somehow attack a neoliberal common sense.

It is not new, he reaffirmed, there are euro-sceptic trends in the European community, while Russia characterized historically and even more today, in being a country with logics, that closes on itself.

Dr. Rolandelli exposed that these trends are not isolated facts but a historical tendency and we possibly are before a change of paradigm where there is decay in a form to configure society. Before concluding, there was an exchange of postures with the college students.

It is worth mentioning, that this Thursday afternoon, there will be a transmission of the program "Liberty is..." of the Department of Political Studies, through Radio Universidad, where Dr. Rolandelli talks about his work and its relation with the University of Guanajuato.