Apuntes para pensar los estudios geoculturales y el pensamiento nacional y popular: conexiones entre Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz y Rodolfo Kusch. Peronismo y muchedumbre

• Main Author: Ighina, Domingo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: National thought; geocultural studies; Kusch; Scalabrini Ortiz; Peronism; Crowd; Pensamiento nacional; estudios geoculturales; peronismo; muchedumbre; Ortiz; Raúl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=8203390

Although many Latin American intellectuals, have attempted to reformulate the knowledge offered by North Atlantic modernity during most of last century and the current one, carrying out a critical analysis of the way in which its reverse - coloniality – acted in the Westernization processes of our subcontinent, the academy has decoupled the proposals of the intellectuals of "national position" in the Southern Cone from those of the critical studies of the geopolitics of knowledge. On the other hand the recovery of the geocultural perspective inaugurated by Kusch by philosophers and thinkers linked to the studies of the geopolitics of knowledge, as part of a rereading of the philosophy of liberation, now makes it possible to establish with certainty a link between an ensemble of decolonial thinking with national and popular thinking. The present work attempts to relate the so-called “national and popular thought” with geocultural studies based on the philosophical proposal of Rodolfo Kusch. The possibility of understanding the Peronism and the crowd as “entrances” to popular thought and its relationship with the national in the Southern Cone is inquired into with brief entries to some categories of this Argentinian philosopher and the thought of Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz. Hence, this is an attempt to relate the most relevant trends of the "matrix of national and popular thought" -according to Alcira Argumedo-, with the geocultural perspectives of the Latin American thought, and offer a contribution to complete its panorama not only in Latin America in general (and) but also in the Southern Cone in particular. Although what has been developed only briefly investigates the proposals of Scalabrini Ortiz and Kusch, the work is presented as a series of notes to establish the necessary connections to complete the panorama of the Latin American and decolonial thought and its current challenges. Si bien muchos intelectuales latinoamericanos, durante gran parte del siglo pasado y en lo que va del presente, han intentado ...