Genealogía de la tradición revisionista. Intervenciones intelectuales en el contexto del nacionalismo cultural

Abstract

The questioning of intellectuals and intelligentsia is a recurring topic that works as common theme in the critical interventions associated with the successive popular nationalisms, from F.O.R.J.A. in the thirties to the nation-al left in the fi fties and sixties, going through peronismo. This article aims at outlining a historical review of revisionism, in order to rebuild the genealogical line of the critique of the cul-tural establishment, from Ramón Doll and Arturo Jauretche to Jorge Abelardo Ramos and Juan José Hernández Arregui, among others. Thus, the article intends to resignify the interest that those nationalist works from the thirties bear in the history of the Argentinian culture, beyond orthodox ideologism. Ramón Doll’s anti-intellectualist critique is resumed by Arturo Jauretche, and it is integrated into a global criti-cal programme against the cultural establishment. This questioning can be interpreted as a kind of revisionism in a cultural key, inasmuch as it assumes a demystifying attitude similar to that adopted by historiographic revisionism, besides using many of its themes and arguments.