Nación y nacionalismo en los orígenes de la derecha argentina : Leopoldo Lugones y Carlos Ibarguren

Abstract

The transformations that took place in Argentina from the end of the 19th century until the first decades of the 20th led to many men occupying socially or intellectually recognized positions to feeling alarmed by what they considered an attack on the prevailing order and a threat to natural hierarchies. The introduction of majority democracy aggravated their pessimistic and troubled perceptions, and self-denominated nationalist movements began to arise, gradually abandoning their nativist-cultural character in order to develop a concrete ideological and political profile. The concepts of nation and nationalism were discourse instruments that helped unify this incipient, anti-democratic right. In this article, the use of these concepts (emphasizing their historicity) by Leopoldo Lugones and Carlos Ibarguren, two of the principal intellectuals of this tendency, is analyzed.