Sarmiento y la desmesura del pensar

Abstract

Writer, polemicist, military man, President of the Nation, Domingo Sarmiento is a figure at the same time museological and cursed in Argentine history. Admired and hated, idolized in official events as a hero, he is, however, less understood today than he could have been in his time. We will put as a starting point for this work a hypothesis: Sarmiento is a figure of inescapable interest because it is the beginning and, at the same time, the highest point of a highly original Argentine tradition of understanding the relationship between political thought and practice: Sarmiento thought politics as a gesture.