Abstract

VELARDE CANAZARES, Marcelo. The Young Philosophical Avant-garde in Argentina in the 1920s. Cuyo-anu. filos. argent. am. [online]. 2013, vol.30, n.1, pp.61-87. ISSN 1853-3175.

The philosophical avant-garde of the Argentinean “new generation” in the 1920s is not as such subject of preceding research, and the paper begins with a discussion on this matter. An overview of the ideological disputes at the time is then outlined, especially concerning Inicial, the journal in which that avant-garde better expressed itself. The next sections of the paper deal with its most representatives philosophers: Miguel Ángel Virasoro, Vicente Fatone, Carlos Astrada and Ángel Vassallo. Their concepts are compared with regard to the crisis of the West and the historical mission of the new generation. But their approaches’ characteristic spiritualism and vitalism can then also be noticed in their criticism of Thomism and positivism, as well as in their claims about the integrality of spirit, and in other metaphysical and political questions. Finally the main possible directions for further research are pointed out.

Keywords : Avant-garde; 1920s; Spiritualism; Vitalism; Argentinean Philosophy.

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