'Punto de Vista' and the Argentine intellectual left 1st ed.

Author

• Mercader, Sofía

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030790424

Series

New directions in Latino American cultures

Subject(s)

• INTELLECTUAL LIFE
• RIGHT AND LEFT (POLITICAL SCIENCE)

Notes

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xii, 269 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction
Formative years
The early dictatorship years
The late dictatorship years
Past, Present, and Future
Crisis
At the turn of the century
Epilogue

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00618/22	306.0982 Mer P	Online !	Available