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Esta investigacion se desarrolla como una exploracion critica de los principios de la Economia y el Estado en el fundamento de las sociedades humanas. Transita, asi, a traves de una multiplicidad de tradiciones disciplinares, casos de estudio y debates que van desde las reflexiones aristotelicas sobre la casa y la ciudad hasta las de los pensadores contemporaneos sobre lo que es una
sociedad de consumo ; sobre la semiosis del dinero y lo sagrado, en los margenes operativos de la identidad politica; o sobre el poder de los cazadores de cabezas melanesios, y el no-poder de los reyes divinos del Africa central. Por este camino ira perfilandose un nuevo utillaje teorico basado en una comprension praxeologica de la historia, en un intento por recomponer, mas alla de la obcecada oposicion entre modos de produccion y narrativas, la unidad de nuestra especie biologica tambien en la interpretacion de su radical variabilidad cultural.
This research constitutes a critical exploration of the onset of Economics and the State in the foundations of human societies. It thus moves through a multiplicity of disciplinary traditions, case studies and debates. From Aristotle’s reflections on the household and the city to those of contemporary authors on what a ‘consumer society’ is; on the semiosis of money and the sacred, towards the operative margins of political identity; or on the power of Melanesian headhunters, and the non-power of the ‘divine kings’ of Central Africa. On this path a new theoretical toolkit based on a praxeological understanding of history will be outlined, as an attempt to reset, beyond the obtuse opposition between modes of production and narratives, the unity of our biological species also in the interpretation of its radical cultural variability.
