This book is the first comprehensive account of the Argentine magazine Punto de Vista (1978–2008), a cultural review that gathered together prominent Argentine intellectuals throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century. Directed by cultural historian and public intellectual Beatriz Sarlo, the story of the magazine serves as a lens to study the evolution of Argentine intellectuals from the leftist mobilization of the 1960s through periods of military dictatorship and then the shifting politics of democratization in the 1980s and 1990s. The book argues that the way in which the Argentine intellectual left negotiated the political and cultural transformations of the late twentieth century can be understood as the history of two political defeats: that of the revolutionary utopias of the 1960s and 1970s and that of the social democrat project in the 1980s. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book encompasses a wide range of debates taking place in Argentina, from the years prior to the dictatorship to the postdictatorship period.
Author(s): Sofía Mercader
Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 276
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction
References
2 Formative Years
The Culturally Flourishing 1960s
The Politicised 1970s
References
3 The Early Dictatorship Years
Publishing a Magazine Under the Dictatorship
The Construction of a Lineage: From Sarmiento to Borges
The 1837 Generation
Martín Fierro
Twentieth-Century Intellectuals
The Introduction of a New Criticism
Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies
Latin American Criticism
Punto De Vista, Revista De Cultura
References
4 The Late Dictatorship Years
The Exile Connection
The Falklands/Malvinas War
‘Ustedes, los de Punto de Vista’
References
5 Past, Present, and Future
Punto de Vista Renovates Itself
The Crisis of Marxism and the Reformulation of a Socialist Stance
Club de Cultura Socialista
How to Reconstruct the Past?
The Role of the Intellectual
References
6 Crisis
Modernism versus Postmodernism and the Question of Value
Beatriz Sarlo and the Fight for Aesthetic and Political Values
The Crisis of Intellectuals, the Club de Cultura Socialista in Crisis
References
7 At the Turn of the Century
The Era of Progresismo: 1994–2004
The Final Years
References
8 Epilogue
References
Index
