The history of Argentine philosophy continues to be a disputed territory, as it requires different perspectives when reading it and, fundamentally, bringing it to the present. The stamp Prometheus just published Argentine philosophy of the mid-20th century. Figures, themes and perspectivesa volume edited by academics Marisa Muñoz and Aldana Contardi.
The book, dedicated to Horacio Gonzalez, addresses a very rich period of Argentine thought. The essays that comprise it once again circulate names such as Angélica Mendoza, Carlos Astrada, Francisco Romero, Luis Juan Guerrero, Rodolfo Kusch, León Rozitchner, Oscar Masotta and Héctor A. Murena, among others, while they are also revisited authors such as Macedonio Fernández (“Only a Traveler, the Great Traveler, he who thinks his journey without arrivals”, is the quote from the great Argentine writer that introduces the volume), Jorge Luis Borges and Antonio Di Benedetto.
Legacies and genealogies that, reconstructed with new hermeneutical baggage, enable, in turn, unprecedented journeys for the philosophical, literary and political culture of Argentina. As Marisa Muñoz wrote in the prologue, “the philosophical culture of the mid-century, with its concepts, theories, practices and disciplinary intersections constitutes a significant instance of elaborations and representations of the Argentine philosophical and cultural field.”
Ricardo Ibarlucía, Gerardo Oviedo, Florencia Zalazar, Grisel García Vela, Silvana Benavente, Noelia Liz Gatica, Adriana María Arpini, Juan Ramaglia, Marcos Olalla, Omar Acha, María Luisa Rubinelli, Cristian Sucksdorf, Dante Ramaglia, Samuel Cabanchik, Marcela Croce, Jerónimo Ariño Leyden, Sofía Criach Montilla, Nicolás Torre Giménez, Marina Sarale, Gastón Cottino and Luciana Hug Sonego are the authors of the texts, in addition to the editors already mentioned.
