The Subject as Transcendentality within Real Life

Abstract

“When we speak today of the return of the repressed and crushed subject, we speak of the human being as the subject of this rationality, who is confronted with the irrationality of the rationalized. In this perspective liberation becomes the recovery of the human being as subject.”¹ With these words, Franz Hinkelammert reveals an inflection important not only in his thought, but also in the tradition of thought that is articulated around the Ecumenical Department of Research (DEI) in Costa Rica: liberation is no longer considered solely or principally about the construction of a new society, but it is also about the concept of the subject.