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López, María Pia
De Gainza, Mariana
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Temporal Coverage
1916-1945
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spa
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406 p.
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1916-1945
Abstract
Towards a «broadened reason»: an approximation to the ethico-political thought of Carlos Astrada (1916-1945) The general aim of this thesis is to research Carlos Astrada's work between 1916 and 1945, a period which has been largely neglected by critics. Hence, Astrada’s work will be study giving priority to its ethical-political orientation, which I consider a distinctive feature throughout this period. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part is focused on his early work, which covers the period 1916-1927. The second part is devoted to the period 1927-1945. In the first part of the research, I offer a general interpretative framework for his early work, which is placed at the crossroads of two sensibilities that run through his thought: «vitalism» and «romanticism» (Chapter I). In this regard, I focus on his most relevant public debates, e.g., Astrada’s discussion with vernacular positivism on the limits of rationality and the role of philosophy and science; the ways in which Astrada interpreted the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the University Reform of 1918 (in which he took part); his links with some intellectual circles related with libertarian and anarcho-Bolshevik political trends; his debate with Catholic nationalism on the notion of «fatherland»; and the way in which he approached the aesthetic avant-garde, while considering himself as belonging to a «new generation» that expressed a «new sensibility» (Chapter II). Secondly, I examine the notions that I consider central to his youthful ethical-political thought. Accordingly, I also underline the most significant philosophical influences that shaped his work at the time. I analyse the scope and implications of the different relations that Astrada drew between the notions of «ideal» and «life» (chapter III) and the different ways in which Astradian thought challenged instrumental rationality as a paradigm for thinking on politics and human praxis in general. In order to do this, I will show his efforts to avoid falling back into irrationalism, but rather seek the elaboration of an «broadened rationality» based on the complementation of reason with longing, passions, instincts, «aesthetic prefiguration», and myth (Chapter IV). As a result of the first part of the thesis, I offer a «unitary image» of Astrada's youthful work. This image represents a solid ground to situate the developments of the second part, which correspond to the author's later work. Then, I will attempt to demonstrate possible resonances of the youthful ethico-political philosophy in his work, while also attempting to establish some theoretical innovations and displacements. The second part of the research replicates the general structure of the first, but for the period 1927-1945. In the first place, I present Astrada's passage from the «philosophies of life» to the «philosophies of existence» (Chapter V); and I provide a synthesis of the historical-intellectual and biographical context of the aforementioned period, for which I address the following core topics: his formative trip to Germany and his reception of the work of Scheler and Heidegger, which constitute a part of the process of professionalisation of Argentine philosophy; his participation in some political activities towards the beginning of the 1930s, especially in the Frente de Afirmación del Nuevo Orden Espiritual (F.A.N.O.E.); his first approach to Marx's thought; his reinterpretation of the University Reform of 1918 and its actual goal; his attempt at a historical-philosophical understanding of the arrival of National Socialism to power; his links with nationalist intellectual and political circles and his participation in numerous publications of the same orientation, in which he produced a series of texts outlining a «national-revolutionary» perspective (chapter VI). Secondly, I present, in conceptual terms, the salient moments of his work. In order to do this, I will underline his most relevant philosophical influences. I investigate the Astradian research on the meaning of the human being, which is divided between anthropologico-philosophical and metaphysical enquiries. This research lines find his ways through an insight on the character of «play», the unity of theory and praxis, the centrality of «space» and the relevance of «corporeality», all of them elements that contradict the primacy of rationality (chapter VII). On the other hand, I analyse the Astradian elaborations around an «existential ethics» (chapter VIII); and the relations between «poetry», «myth», and «religiosity», which replicate his quest for a «broadened rationality» (chapter IX). Finally, an Excursus to the last chapter seeks to address El mito gaucho (1948) on the basis of the points made above. The conclusions offer, in addition to a synthesis of what has been presented throughout the thesis, a series of indications for future researchs, identifying possible resonances of Carlos Astrada’s ethico-political thought for the analyzed period the rest of his work.
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales