Breve historia del pensamiento político moderno: de Maquiavelo al coronavirus.

The article "Brief history of modern political thought: from Machiavelli to the coronavirus" by Miguel Saralegui, published in the magazine Tópicos, analyzes modern political thought, highlighting the interaction between word and politics and the formal principles that characterize it. The author contrasts the ideas of Machiavelli and Hobbes, and explores various ideologies such as liberalism, Marxism, anarchism, totalitarianism, and feminism. The blurring of liberalism in the context of the 2020 coronavirus crisis is discussed, as well as the need to use different interpretive guidelines to approach individual modern thinkers. The article also reflects on the coronavirus crisis as a revenge of "what is given" against its scant recognition in the recent past. The article also addresses the importance of context in understanding classical texts and criticizes current liberalism, mentioning geopolitical crises and migration issues as relevant topics today. Despite points of disagreement, the value of Saralegui's text as an introduction to political thought in Spanish is recognized. [Extracted from the article]