Towards a Democracy without Fear: A Conversation with Renato Cristi

Abstract

During a period of four decades the academic work of Renato Cristi has been illuminating, theoretically and historically, the foundations and intellectual development of Pinochet's civic-military dictatorship, as well as the influence and implications the conservative thought had in the institutional design of Chile’s democracy. The interview, conducted between October and November of 2018, in person and by e-mail, discusses Cristi’s contributions in perspective, including the biographical, methodological, conceptual and political aspects that helped shaped Cristi’s academic work.