General guidelines on the historical understanding of the Mexican-neoliberal device.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse in a broad manner the way in which, in the Mexican case, a neoliberal social order was constituted through the transformation of specific devices. To this end, this analysis recalls the possibilities that the examination of instruments or devices enables; mainly, in terms of its historical dimension. Considering the above, the interpretation of some historical events allows us to understand the transformation from a statist social order to one governed by the neoliberal rationality of the market. In this sense, the philosophical analysis is enriched by the concrete dimension of historiography. The outcome of this amalgam (philosophy/history) will provide an analytical framework to understand the way in which the neoliberal order, in the case of Mexico, has been constituted. As a result, a reflection on the analytical scope of the concept of device will be possible, based on its application to specific facts of the Mexican reality.