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Lugones and Vasconcelos: a Neo-Hellenistic view on the New World? The influence of the classical Greek tradition on Spanish-American identity creation
Code
01D28208
Duration
01 October 2008 → 01 October 2009
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
americanisme reception classical tradition
 
Project description

The range of thought of the authors Leopoldo Lugones en José Vasconcelos is characterized by an unremitting search for a continental (Spanish-American) and national (Argentinian/Mexican) identity. This comparative research intends to examine whether the authors' shared fascination for the classic Greek culture can explain the similarities in their ideas related to the formation of nationalities from a political-ideological, philosophical and pedagogical perspective.