The reception of Jean-Paul Sartre's thought in Argentina: the existentialist generation of 25 and the new left of Contorno

Abstract

This article consists in the exposition of the two firsts receptions of Sartre’s thought in Argentina. From a historiographical and generational viewpoint, we analyze the two Argentinean collectives which embraced certain Sartrian thesis between 1940 and 1950. On the one hand, we present the so called Existentialist Generation of the year 25 and its scholar study of Sartre’s speculative philosophy; on the other hand, we study the group gathered around the journal Contorno and its literary criticism based on the Parisian’s doctrine of engaged literature. The aim of this paper is to revive Sartrian studies in Argentina looking back at its past in the intellectual field of our country.