Elitismo, violencia y degeneración física en los diagnósticos de las derechas argentina y chilena (1880 – 1945)

This article analyzes some of the right and extreme right-wing’s discourses and interpretations in Argentina and Chile, between the end of the nineteenth century and WWII. Some attention is focused on the way some rightist figures (especially physicians, politicians and intellectuals) perceived the...

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Main Authors: Daniel Lvovich, Ernesto Bohoslavsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2009-11-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/57777
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Summary:This article analyzes some of the right and extreme right-wing’s discourses and interpretations in Argentina and Chile, between the end of the nineteenth century and WWII. Some attention is focused on the way some rightist figures (especially physicians, politicians and intellectuals) perceived the physical and moral decadence of their respective nations. In their imagination, the other side of the decadence process would be a moralistic Crusade aimed at imposing a new transcendental and anti-decadent order.
ISSN:1626-0252