This Saturday, June 22, marks three years since the death of the prominent essayist, sociologist, thinker, university professor and former director of the National Library, Horacio González, who died at the age of 77, from Covid. In this framework, he published a book in tribute to his figure titled Horacio González. Reflections of a militant work, life and passion (Orilla Brava publishing house). The work brings together articles from friends, colleagues and readers of his work such as Eduardo Rinesi, María Pia López, Alejandro Moreira, Roberto Retamoso, Silvana Carozzi, Eduardo Medina and Juan José Giani, which were compiled by Sebastián Artola, doctor in Political Science, professor university student and companion of Horacio González for ten years in the “Argentine and Latin American Political Projects” chair of the Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science at the National University of Rosario.
“As has been done in multiple ways, in different places and geographies through which Horacio traveled, leaving his mark and sowing affection and friendships, on this occasion a group of friends and colleagues from the city of Rosario wanted to make a collective book about his thoughts and life,” reads the prologue.
“Horacio’s relationship with Rosario is prolific and distant in time. From his first forays into the city in the 60s as a young activist to his long career as a professor at the National University of Rosario, in the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations (from 1987 to 2013) and in the Faculty of Humanities and Arts (at the School of History, for a shorter period, between 1988 and 1994). Furthermore, Rosario would always be one of his stops obligated when it comes to presenting their books, giving talks wherever they may be, imagining and making massive days of Argentine thought come true, or accompanying one or another political adventure.”
“His sharp irony, his handy humor, the ethics of friendship that he cultivated under a listening that he embraced, the depth, the impossible discoveries and the capacity for invention of his thought, made each conversation, talk or class, a place almost magical and unique that crossed us like an arrow from which it was impossible to escape unscathed; imprinting on each of us a totally new meaning to our ways of thinking, doing, being or reading.”
For Artola, “the book seeks to celebrate the work, thoughts and passage of Horacio González through our lives.” And he maintained: “Horacio was an example of commitment, generosity, critical capacity and intellectual lucidity, which make him, without a doubt, one of the most powerful thinkers in our country.”
“Keeping the flame of your thought lit is a necessary and essential task, I would say, to forge new ideas and practices that allow us to get out of this present and make possible again in the country a popular, egalitarian, democratic and emancipatory collective project, with which Horacio was always committed to.”
The book is made up of eight essays: “The question of the nation in the work of Horacio González” by Eduardo Rinesi; “Writing, that danger” by María Pia López; “For us, Horacio González” by Alejandro Moreira; “Perón’s writer” by Roberto Retamoso; “Horacio González y Rosario, or the memories in lemon ink” by Silvana Carozzi; “What do we do with the work of Horacio” by Eduardo Medina; “Horacio González and dialectical humanism” by Juan José Giani; and “Theory, politics and camaraderie in Horacio González” by Sebastián Artola.
To purchase it, you can write to the email [email protected]. Deliveries will be made to the whole country.
