Heroes of the interwar years: the exemplary figures according to the <i>Revista de Filosofía</i> (Buenos Aires, 1915-1929)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the Revista de Filosofía collection, published in Buenos Aires since 1915 to 1929. This journal was founded and directed by José Ingenieros and, during the years 1925-1929, by Aníbal Ponce. Many features of the Revista de Filosofía were studied; in general, it is considered a late South American positivist project. On the contrary, this editorial enterprise is developed during the First World War and the post-war era, and that means that the journal takes in consideration other historical situations, for example, the post-war humanism, the Russian Revolution or the Reforma Universitaria movement. Then, we focus on the texts that belong, in a wide sense, to the biographical writing: tribute speeches on some relevant personalities, obituaries and life-work outlines, all of them devoted to scientists, educators or philosophers. In general terms, all these texts contribute to the main objectives of the journal: to offer models for a scientificist, secularist, modern and pacifist cultural project.