Editorial

Abstract

In this first issue we have focused our attention on a question whose answer seems to be extremely obvious for those of us who work and do social theory from Latin America, to the point that the question itself seems to lack real meaning and importance: "Is there social theory in Latin America? "However, the approach to the relationship between the pretensions of universality of theories of society and the particularities of the Latin American reality points precisely to the foundation of the question: namely, to problematize the tendency very typical of our social sciences to essentialize the territory that gives form and foundation to a "Latin American social theory" -because it transforms such reflection into an exercise "of", "about" or "for" that territory-, as well as the attitude of absolutizing the abstract character of the "general social theory" -because it leads to underestimate the dialogue with any reflection that appeals to transcendent or universal aspects of human existence in society-. This is precisely the task undertaken by Alejandro Fielbaum, Ismael Puga and Alexis Cortés in this issue.