Ernesto Garzón Valdés

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Ernesto Garzón Valdés

Ernesto Garzón Valdés (born February 17, 1927 in Córdoba , Argentina ) is an Argentine-German legal philosopher , political scientist and university professor.

Life

Garzón Valdé studied law , philosophy , political science and sociology in Córdoba, Madrid, Munich, Bonn and Cologne. Until 1974 he was professor of legal philosophy at the Universities of Córdoba and La Plata and a member of the Argentine Foreign Service (including head of the cultural department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs); In 1974 he was posted to the Argentine embassy in Bonn; A little later, however, he was exposed to political persecution by the Isabel Perón government , with the loss of diplomatic and academic positions, so that he lived in exile in Germany .

After teaching positions at the universities of Bonn, Cologne and Mainz, he was university professor for political science at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1981 .

The rehabilitation and resumption of the diplomatic service in the rank of ambassador did not take place until the 1980s under President Alfonsín .

However, Garzón Valdés did not return to active diplomatic service, but stayed as a professor at the University of Mainz and taught as a visiting professor at numerous universities abroad (including Finland, Italy and Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Peru).

Main focus of work and work

Garzón Valdés' main scientific interest is the analysis of fundamental legal and political science terms (including: legal validity , stability , tolerance , representation , responsibility , equality , corruption , human dignity , terrorism ), political ethics ( legitimacy of political systems , social justice , rule of law ) and the political and social conditions in Latin America (especially Argentina and Mexico ).

In general, Garzón Valdés' work can be seen as a political theory with a legal philosophical foundation. He is a classic liberal who is particularly concerned with the universal protection of the individual against the arbitrariness of state authorities in particular. This is expressed, among other things, in the rejection of group-related rights, but also in the rejection of cultural relativism. He would generally like to locate rights outside the reach of arbitrary definitions by state authorities. At the same time, however, he is skeptical about the positive legal limitation of the state sovereign and is accordingly particularly concerned about the stability of constitutional political systems. Issues such as the relationship between the rule of law and paternalism and tolerance haunted him even before the general boom. The choice of topic is certainly also due to his lifelong involvement in questions of an often very unfortunate Argentine practical policy.

Honors

medal

Festschrift

  • Werner Krawietz, Georg Henrik von Wright (eds.): Public or private morality? On the validity and legitimacy of law. Commemorative publication for Ernesto Garzón Valdés. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-428-07435-1 .

Publications

Numerous publications appeared in Spanish, German, English and Italian, including u. a. the following books:

  • Derecho y “naturaleza de las cosas” (The law and the “nature of the thing”). 2 vols. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba (Arg.) 1970.
  • El concepto de estabilidad de los sistemas políticos . Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Madrid 1987. New edition: Fontamara, Mexico City 1992.
  • The stability of political systems. Analysis of the term with case studies from Latin America. Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-495-47660-1 .
  • Derecho, ética y política (Law, Ethics and Politics. Collected Articles). Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Madrid 1993.
  • The Velo de la Ilusión. Apuntes para una biografía argentina (The veil of illusion. Notes on an Argentine biography). Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 2000.
  • Instituciones Suicidas. Estudios de Etica y Política (Suicidal Institutions. Ethical-Political Research). Paidós, Mexico City 2000.
  • Filosofía, política, derecho (philosophy, politics, law). Edited by Javier de Lucas. Universidad de Valencia, Valencia 2001.
  • Tolleranza, responsabilità e Stato di diritto. Saggi di filosofia morale e politica (Tolerance, responsibility and the rule of law. Moral and political-philosophical essays). Bologna 2003.
  • Calamidades . Gedisa, Barcelona 2005, ISBN 84-97840-48-8 .
  • Por qué estoy aquí. Tres justificaciones y una excusa (Why I'm here. Three justifications and one apology). La Rioja (Arg.), Universidad Nacional 2005
  • Tolerancia, dignidad y democracia (tolerance, dignity and democracy). Universidad Inca Garcilaso del la Vega, Lima 2006.
  • (with Norberto Spolansky, Carlos S. Nino and María E. Urquijo): Lenguaje y acción humana (language and human action). Ad-Hoc Buenos Aires 2007.
  • Propuestas (suggestions). Trotta, Barcelona 2011.

Ed. Or co-ed.

  • Latin American Studies in Legal Philosophy . (Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy, Volume 4) Neuwied, Luchterhand 1965.
  • (with Peter Waldmann): El poder militar en la Argentina (1976-1981) . Frankfurt a. M., Vervuert 1982; Buenos Aires, Galerma 1983.
  • Derecho y Filosofía . Barcelona, ​​Alfa 1985, 2nd edition 1988; Mexico City, Fontamara 1989,
  • (with E. Bulygin): Argentine Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law today . Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 1987. ISBN 9783428063055
  • (with Manfred Mols and Arnold Spitta): La democracia argentina actual . Buenos Aires, Sudamericana 1988.
  • Spanish Studies in Legal Philosophy . Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 1990. ISBN 9783428068234
  • (with J. Bähr, S. Horl-Groenewold, K. Kohut and H. Pietschmann): The conquered continent. Historical reality, justification, and literary depiction of the colonization of America . Frankfurt a. M., Vervuert 1991.
  • (with Fernando Salmerón): Epistemología y cultura. En torno a la obra de Luis Villoro . Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1993
  • (with Ruth Zimmerling): Facets of Truth . Festschrift for Meinolf Wewel . Freiburg / Munich, Karl Alber 1995. ISBN 978-3-495-47820-2
  • (with Werner Krawietz, Georg H. von Wright and Ruth Zimmerling): Normative Systems in Legal and Moral Theory. Festschrift for Carlos E. Alchourrón and Eugenio Bulygin . Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 1996. ISBN 9783428086917
  • (with Francisco Laporta): Derecho y Justicia , Vol. 11 of the Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Filosofía . Madrid, Trotta 1996.
  • (with Aulis Aarnio and Jyrki Uusitalo): La normatividad del Derecho . Barcelona, ​​Gedisa 1996.
  • (with Werner Krawietz and Agustín Squella): Political Power Structures and New Constitutionalism - Ibero America and Europe in a comparative theory perspective . Legal theory supplement 13/2001

Some German-language contributions from the last few years, selected from over 200 essays and articles

  • "Organ Transplant Considerations". In: Analysis & Criticism , 2/1995
  • "State Terrorism, Justice and Justice". In: The case of Pinochet (s) . Ed. Heiko Ahlbrecht u. Kai Ambos, Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999. ISBN 9783789064104
  • "Argentine Democracy Today: Ethical-Political Problems of Overcoming the Dictatorship." In: Legal Theory , Supplement 13/2001
  • "Corruption - On the Systemic Relativity of a Universal Phenomenon". In: Visibility and Invisibility of Power. Political Corruption Theories . Edited by Harald Bluhm, Karsten Fischer. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002. ISBN 9783789082719
  • "On the cultural roots of Latin America in Europe and their current revaluation". In: Loccumer Protocols 09/03, Evangelical Academy Loccum 2003. ISBN 978-3-8172-0903-3
  • "Hypocrisy, Compassion, and the Rule of Law". In: Manuel Atienza, Enrico Pattaro, Martin Schulte, Boris Topornin y Dieter Wyduckel (eds.), Theory of Law and Society. Festschrift for Werner Krawietz on his 70th birthday . Duncker & Humblot Verlag, Berlín 2003. ISBN 9783428113941
  • "Relations between Germany and Hispanic America in the field of social sciences and philosophy". In: German-Spanish cultural relations in a European context. Edited by Wolfgang Bader u. Ignacio Olmos. Vervuert, Frankfurt a. M. 2004. ISBN 3-86527-103-0
  • "Alternative systems of norms to the state legal order in Latin America". In: Rule of Law in the Age of Globalization . Edited by Rolf Kappel, Hans Werner Tobler, Peter Waldmann. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2005. ISBN 978-3793093787
  • "On the moral evaluation of corruption. A suggestion". In: Political quarterly . Special issue 35/2005
  • "Five Theses on Argentine Political Culture". In: Argumentation and political legitimation . Edited by Jan-R. Sieckmann. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006. ISBN 9783832921118

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personal data
SURNAME Garzón Valdés, Ernesto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine diplomat and legal philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba