On September 13, 2016, José Luis Villacañas, professor of Philosophy
at the Complutense University of Madrid, gave a lecture at the San
Martin State University’s Center for Research on Conceptual History, in the presence of an audience formed by scholars of the aforementioned Center and students of the MA on Conceptual History of the same university. The lecture dealt with the possible links between Blumenberg’s phenomenology of history and Koselleck’s Historik. A second topic of his lecture was constituted by a reflection upon the irreversible structure of time, and, in particular, of capitalism itself. Regarding to this latter matter, his reflections dealt with the existent tension between fear and hope, the possibility of going beyond our own age, and the role that must play in that sense the State’s constituent function, at the expense of sovereignty. Below it was transcribed the lecture –which keeps the style of orality, but under a rereading of the
author himself–, and the subsequent discussion that it raised among the participants of the event.
