Jorge Basadre's "Peruvian History of Peru," Or the Poetic Aporia of Historicism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2802871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Thurner (0000-0002-8111-1145, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-283 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182168-2007-120 |
| OpenAlex | W1994707420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article examines the historicist thought of Jorge Basadre (1903-1980). Basadre was Peru's leading twentieth-century historian, and his brilliant and voluminous opus continues to exert a strong influence in Peru today. Basadre developed a "theory of Peru" that creatively drew upon concepts developed by European philosophers (Pascal, Fichte, Hegel, Dilthey, Renan, Ortega y Gasset, and Croce) but which was singularly Peruvian, since as an affirmative historicist apprehension of the collective subject or self named "Peru" it was "homologous with its own formation." Nevertheless, this article argues that Basadre's homologous "Peruvian history of Peru" admits ahistorical heterogeneity or "the abyss" as its founding (un)reason for being
Apprehension · Art · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Historicism · Literature · Poetry · Subject (documents) · History · Latin American Cultural Politics · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |