Postura epistemológica de las ciencias sociales de Fernando González en su obra "Viaje a Pie"

Abstract

A central theoretical aspect in the Social Sciences is epistemology, however, the theory of knowledge can be abstracted from various expressions and theoretical sources that expose it. This is the case of the work of the Colombian thinker Fernando González in which, although it is considered literature, for many it is the door of an authentic and revealing philosophical thought. His work "viaje a Pie" celebrates 90 years of publication and is still an enigma for Latin American thought. The monograph is organized in five parts, namely, the first chapter establishes some guidelines of the context of Fernando Gonzalez at the time of the work, through comments on the author, the literary movement to which he belongs, the Colombia of those early decades of the twentieth century through the description of the work in general terms. In the second chapter we will confront the baggage of antecedents that were compiled, they are divided according to the characteristics of the landscape, of the knowledge of the philosophy, of the love and of the image of Fernando González, also it is explained the why and for what of this work, In the chapter three we enter matter explaining the true and fictitious thing in this novel, the unity that was found in the trasegar of the interpretation. In chapter three the methodological bases are laid explaining in what the ricoerian hermeneutics consists. Chapter five is dedicated to explain the epistemology and the field of epistemology in social sciences, as for statutes, parameters, schools and their respective representative authors, to develop the interpretation in chapter five, beginning with an explanation of the emotional phenomenology and certain necessary debates with Germán Núñez, to continue with the explanation of the categories extracted from the novel and exposed by means of a matrix of the four categories, that are: the emotional method, the language, the experience and the trip, from these categories the interpretation is explained, we enter the novel in depth and the selection of variables. This novel reveals important visions about history, geography, sociology, political science, ethics, etc. It also includes a reflection on social science research in Colombia and the pedagogical aspect of this monograph according to an assessment of the socio-affective approach to pedagogy.