Saint-Simon y los orígenes del pensamiento tecnocrático: contexto y evolución de un discurso

Abstract

The concept of technocracy arises in France in the early nineteenth century, after the stage dominated by the wars of the Revolution and the Empire. Before the clamour of the contemporary crisis, Saint-Simon and later his disciples -the Saint Simonian school– developed a discourse that used science, as well as its laws and regularities, to project a new model of social organization, based on the essential principles of industrial activity. Its purpose was to adapt to the new times before the growing discredit of the concept of political domination and the framework of exploitation perpetuated from the past. Based on this problem, the article analyses and seeks to contextualize this process, emphasizing the decisive role of the sacralization of science as a key element for the configuration of a new authority based on the neutralization of politics.