Memorias del subsuelo: Exploración de la economía de los valores en el Chile actual

Abstract

This article is an effort to state the value articulations which are upgrated and reproduced in the interpretations made by social forces on the current public Chilean reality. We will examine those values which, thus with less strong political content, are less a “political culture” than a normative background that articulate the will of a common political destiny. They are more values of the polis than of politics. In this sence, the comprehension of the site and the meaning of certain public fundamental values, like order, equalness, freedom, justice and progress; the effort to describe the relations between material realities and value constructions; the description of the most solid and fertil cultural characteristics in the Chilean symbolic life; they form the challenges that have been confronted in this document, which show a conservation of order out of sence, a significant fracture in the imaginaries of social order between the rich and the rest; besides a group of incipient transformations associated to the realm of consumption and enterpreneuring as predominating integrative forms in Chile nowadays.