El desafío del multiculturalismo

Resumen

Taking as its starting point a conception of language which is derived from the later Wittgenstein, this paper claims that it is possible to conceive language as the territory which comprehends and mediates cultural differences. The Wittgensteinian deconstruction of language enables and awareness of the arbitrary character of one’s own linguistic conceptualization. Such awareness has a profound practical value, for it liberates us from the ties to which our language subject us. It allows to transcend or relocate in our own symbolic universe notions as central to the tradition as, subject, individual, and society. It paves the way for a new conception of ourselves, as well as of our own social and political world.