Cuadernos de H ideas

Inequality in Times of Pandemic: Cholera and Spanish Influenza in Mexico

Enrique Rajchenberg — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Epidemic and pandemic situations expose inequality in societies, among other things, through differences in morbidity and mortality rates. But they also constitute moments in which representations about the poor and poverty are more clearly manifested. The article studies this issue during two pandemics in Mexico, that of cholera in 1833 and that of Spanish influenza in 1918.

The evolution of the welfare state and its sustainability

Tiago Santos — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The role of the public sector is hotly debated, but those involved in the discussion are not always aware of the type of state that governs them. This study therefore aims to put the welfare state into context by comparing the different models and exposing the global pressures for change. Adopting a literature review, four models were distinguished: Liberal, Corporatist, Scandinavian and Southern. The conclusion is that globalization and an ageing population is the main phenomena putting the sustainability of the welfare state at risk.

Review to Enrique Quinteros (Comp.). (2023). Escritoras salteñas. Emma Solá de Solá

Leonor Ortuño — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Review to Enzo Traverso (2022). Revolución: una historia intelectual

Gastón Olivera — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Stories of Philosophical Knowledge in Argentina

Paula Jimena Sosa, María Carla Galfione — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Throughout the twentieth century, a series of narratives about the past of Argentine philosophy have emerged. These narratives motivate the present dossier, which attempts to go beyond them, with the purpose of making new interpellations to illuminate hitherto neglected objects. Exploring other theoretical frameworks enables new questions, which, in addition to the semantic contents of philosophical discourse, may include other theoretical and historical concerns: how, from where, why, with or against whom it is written. Thus, the present critical review attends to different moments and expressions of Argentine philosophical thought. It seeks to denaturalize the definitions and stages traced in the most classical histories and thus revise the explanations of the philosophical receptions present in them, immersing these accounts in the historical and discursive contexts in which they are inscribed.

The Philosophical Knowledge at at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos Aires

Facundo José Moine — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper analyses the beginnings of academic philosophy in the first decade of the twentieth century, focusing on the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. It deals with several texts published by authorities and professors in different institutional journals, recognizing there the signs of its first definitions. From a Foucauldian approach to knowledge, we can observe the delimitation of a series of theoretical elements that accompany institutional movements. Philosophical knowledge was shaped within the framework of a university and a faculty that were also in the process of formation, and in this process, they were mutually intertwined

From Anti-Positivism to the History of Ideas

María Carla Galfione — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The 1920s marked a decisive break in the way philosophy was defined in Argentina. What was then beginning to be called “philosophy” in the chairs of the recent Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, sought to dissociate itself from the model of the natural sciences to deploy a profile of its own. Although it was already possible to speak of “philosophy” before, it was only then that the possibility of postulating its epistemological autonomy began to be outlined. This implied a profound conceptual change.

Thinking from the Noroeste Argentino: Orestes Di Lullo, Folklore and Philosophy

Susana Inés Herrero Jaime — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this article we investigate the possibility of including the contributions of the Santiago essayist Orestes Di Lullo among the thinkers of northwest Argentina. To do this we do two operations. Firstly, we investigate the meaning of a set of organic expressions that he used to talk about the popular subject and its culture. Secondly, we recover the tensions of his interpretation. The analysis takes us to the cultural project of the intellectuals of the Centennial, between folklore and philosophy.

Contributions to Argentine Philosophical Historiography

Paula Jimena Sosa — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The journal Cuadernos de Filosofía is printed, from the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Buenos Aires, over three periods. The present work addresses the first of these edition moments, focusing fundamentally on its publication during the first Peronism, under the direction of Carlos Astrada. In particular, we will stop at the interventions of Coriolano Alberini and Luis Farré, to the extent that both try to provide coordinates for a national philosophical historiography, establishing ties of tension and complementarity with other agents and journals with different philosophical-political profiles belonging to the same period.

Places to Think About the History of Philosophy: The II National Congress of Córdoba (1971)

Lucía Ana Belloro — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The purpose of this article is to critically explore some places where the history of philosophy in Argentina is inscribed. Places that have tended to fall outside the histories of conceptual philosophy, but also outside the histories of intellectuals. Our starting point for this exploration are the national philosophy congresses that allow us to explore, not without oscillations, the 20th century of Argentine intellectuals and philosophers. Both because of their organization and their composition, these conferences are inseparable from university life and the political ups and downs that animated the country in the 20th century. Interrogating ourselves about the history of philosophy from these institutional places, and from their interstices, allows us to provide a socio-historical perspective that contributes to the understanding of the history of philosophical knowledge, inserting it into a cultural and political history of Argentina. In this sense, we are particularly interested in questioning the second national congress as a way to enter the history of philosophy in the seventies.