What is Critical in Wolfgang Streeck's Thought? Patriarchal Eurocentrism as the Normative Foundation and Horizon of the Consolidation State Theory

Abstract

This article aims to identify normative foundations and horizons in the theoretical production of Wolfgang Streeck. The theoretical research undertaken begins with a reconstructive presentation of the author's intellectual trajectory, emphasizing his critical dialogue with Frankfurtian crisis theories. This contextualization is followed by the identification of apparent antinomies or tensions in Streeck's diagnosis of the crisis of social rights and democracies in the contemporary world. Building on this observation, a critical effort is made to identify, within the interstices of a work that asserts itself as non-normative and indifferent to the proposition of positive solutions, both a political-philosophical
basis and a programmatic direction associated with a vision of society in which the subjects of public policies, law, and democracy are limited to men, white, and European. Thus, the normativity of Streeck's thought is revealed, shedding light on its attributes of incompatibility with critical
thinking, along the lines of which the author usually claims to construct his work.