Alvaro Santana-Acuña

Santana-Acuña has been a visiting scholarat Stanford University and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His research has been published inEngland, Mexico, USA, Spain, and Germany. He is afellow at the Real Colegio Complutense. In his dissertationhe explores how "the social" has been internalized as acollective worldview. Like the neologisms "sociability,""sociology," and "socialism," "the social" was newlyintroduced into language in eighteenth-century Europe. Bycomparing causal narratives from the English and FrenchRevolutions, he seeks to prove that the emergence of "thesocial" was a paradigmatic shift in human understandingand traces how subjects increasingly explained their actionsas socially grounded.