Arturo Andrés Roig y la semiótica en Sarmiento

Abstract

The reading of Sarmiento proposed by Argentine philosopher Arturo Andrés Roig fits within the philosophy of discursive formation of the 19th century and it responds to the conceptual representation of Latin American philosophy postulated by Roig himself. In this essay, we will address only some of the pragmatic-linguistic aspects of the philosophy of speech in Sarmiento’s work, as reconstructed by Roig in some of his studies on Latin American romanticism, focusing on the context of the cultural construction of emerging national identities. We will stress, in particular, the elements of analysis that pertain to the semiotic idea of “decir de hablas”, using them as a guiding thread in the romantic project of “mental emancipation” or “second Independence”, and as a key to the constitution of a Latin American semiotics.