IIPSS – International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies

Philosophy & Social Studies
The Institute is a transnational research network dedicated to the inquiry on social life from plural approaches, interdisciplinary methods, and critical theories. The Institute was founded on 2015 with the aim of producing social public knowledge across the continental boundaries.
Philosophy & Social Studies
The Institute is a transnational research network dedicated to the inquiry on social life from plural approaches, interdisciplinary methods, and critical theories. The Institute was founded on 2015 with the aim of producing social public knowledge across the continental boundaries.
Philosophy & Social Studies
The Institute is a transnational research network dedicated to the inquiry on social life from plural approaches, interdisciplinary methods, and critical theories. The Institute was founded on 2015 with the aim of producing social public knowledge across the continental boundaries.

Cultural criticism, new bet of IIPSS Editorial Project

9 May, 20249 May, 2024 Web Manager

The International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies (IIPSS), together with the Metales Pesados publishing house, will publish two new works from the collection Constelaciones Críticas, which was funded by the 2023 Book and Reading Public Fund from the Ministry of Cultures, Artes and Heritage. The collection Constelaciones Críticas is an editorial project of the International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies (IIPSS) that aims to produce theoretical tools that…

Valeria Campos publishes a new book on a philosophical analysis of eating

3 January, 20243 January, 2024 Web Manager

The philosopher Valeria Campos, a researcher at the International Institute of Philosophy and Social Studies, invites us to question ourselves in her book “Pensar/Comer”, one of humans’ most habitual exercises, which is eating. In her proposal, she addresses one of the ways in the history of philosophy in which eating ceases to be a parasitic theme or the object of a proto-philosophy to become the centre of thinking itself, even…

Materialism and Criticism: A study to understand critique today

3 January, 20243 January, 2024 Web Manager

At a time when critical thinking is co-opted by neoliberalism, it is urgent to ask: What is critique today? What lessons can we draw from the formative process of the Frankfurt School? How can a review of early writings help us answer the question of the role of theory in social change? With these questions, the philosopher Nicolás del Valle sets out to study the work of the German philosophers…

Call for Internships and Professional Training at IIPSS

8 January, 20248 January, 2024 Jair Sepulveda

Are you an undergraduate student looking for a place to do your professional internship? Are you a recent graduate interested in volunteering to learn about how an organization dedicated to research, education, and public policy advisory works? The International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies is opening its call for internships and professional practices for 2024. The International Institute of Philosophy and Social Studies, based in Santiago, Chile, is pleased…

Call for papers Journal Pléyade Nº 33

8 January, 20249 May, 2024 Jair Sepulveda

From the Sociology of Culture to Cultural Sociology: Theoretical Drifts, Experimental Methodologies, and Critical Interventions Since its beginnings as a discipline, sociology has thematized the concept of culture. While some theoretical currents have considered it an exhausted concept for interpreting social phenomena, others have incorporated it as a key vector for deciphering the transformations of modern society. Although the words society and culture have a common etymological origin – Latin…

Call for papers Journal Pléyade Nº 34

8 January, 20249 May, 2024 Jair Sepulveda

Miscellaneous Pléyade. Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales’s issue 34 is receiving articles that, from disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives hosted on social sciences and humanities, allow us to advance analytic, critical and purposeful orientations about social, cultural and intellectual phenomena of national, regional, and global significance and interest. Due to the issue’s thematic plurality, the selection criteria are based on the proposals’ quality and conceptual and/or methodological rigor. The proposals…

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Philosophy & Social Studies

The Institute is a transnational research network dedicated to the inquiry on social life from plural approaches, interdisciplinary methods, and critical theories. The Institute was founded on 2015 with the aim of producing social public knowledge across the continental boundaries.

A Book that provides an insight into the rich diversity of Latin American Marxism, from an historical and contemporary approach.