Nietzsche in Buenos Aires and Montevideo anarchism (1890-1910): Theoretical and methodological considerations

Abstract

Peer-reviewed article

The early reception of Nietzsche’s philosophy in the Rio
de la Plata was configured through some discursive ope-
rators: anarchism, arielist idealism, dandism, materialism,
psychopathology, anticlericalism, social Darwinism and
nationalism. On the one hand, in the current dispute over
the political significance of Nietzschean ideas, both the
so-called “hermeneutics of innocence” and the “apolitical”
interpretation of philology do not historicize the illoquio-
nary force of concepts. On the other hand, the perspec-
tive of conceptual history, understood as the pragmatics
of concepts, offers the alternative of understanding the
political effect of nietzscheanism. Following this last line
of analysis, this work studies the relationship between the
current of anarcho-nietzscheanism and the practices of
eugenics during the hegemony of positivism.

Received 15/06/2019
Acepted 30/08/2018