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Estudios de filosofía práctica e historia de las ideas

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HERRERO, Alejandro. Lugones and Ingenieros: their homage to Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in the first hundred anniversary of his birth (1911). Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2012, vol.14, n.2, pp.57-72. ISSN 1851-9490.

I scrutinize texts of Leopoldo Lugones and José Ingenieros, written to honour Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in the first centennial of his birth in 1911. My theory is that Lugones and Ingenieros intend to legitimize a government of a clever circle that has the authority (the word and the decision), and exposes, therefore, a dogma that gives foundation to motherland and democracy. In other words, all the actors of the motherland (producers of richness, workers, military men, artists, teachers, etc.) must be led by this intelligent elite (to which, according to them, Sarmiento, Lugones and Ingenieros belong). The elitism associated to writers (in Lugones's case) or to scientists (in Ingenieros's case) is the axis that articulates the whole argument and it is since this perspective that they interprete and evoke Sarmiento's figure and writings in the first hundred anniversary of his birth.

Keywords : Leopoldo Lugones; José Ingenieros; Domingo F. Sarmiento; Nation; Racism; Elitism.

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