Introduction, Daniel Alvaro (guest editor)

Abstract

This dossier invites us to reflect on the relations of proximity and distance between two movements of thought that we know to be problematic since there are only partial and provisional agreements about what each of them represents in the current state of research. Social theory and deconstruction are names that allude to unique and at the same time multiple practices, whose respective trajectories, although reconstructible, cannot in principle be defined, without further ado, by the limits of this or that historical moment, heritage, affiliation or proper name. Among other reasons, because they are changing movements in permanent strategic reconfiguration. The fact that they appear here together and occupy the place of the title does not imply a preunderstanding of them or a determined relationship between them. As far as possible, this heading, "Social theory and deconstruction", should be read as an invitation to question the meaning of the elements that make it up, taking into account their crossings and uncrossings.