La tradición fenomenológica en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

This article attempts to show the development of phenomenology at the University of Buenos Aires since the early thirties to the end of the. past century. The paper is concerned only with professors of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters who have had in this period an outstanding role in making the phenomenological movement known. Some main themes are highlighted in each case. 1. Carlos Astrada emphasized at first, under the influence of Heidegger, the notions of existential and metaphysical play. 2. Francisco Romero was concerned with personalism and culture in close connection to Scheler and N. Hartmann. 3. Luis Juan Guerrero elaborated an operative aesthetics encompassing the processes of manifestation, production and promotion of artworks. 4. Eugenio Pucciarelli was concerned with reason and time, and was influenced in the analysis of some of their manifold dimensions by phenomenology. 5. Jacobo Kogan dealt with the link between ethics and metaphysics and Husserl’s significance in this point. 6. Adolfo Carpio, following Heidegger’s views on Being, regarded history of philosophy as essential to philosophical reflection. 7. Ricardo Maliandi, although critical of the intuitionistic approach, stressed the importance of Scheler and N. Hartmann’s axiologies.