Abstract

LABRA, Diego. "Annales, Birmingham, Konstanz": Materality, market and theoretical discussion on the history of reading in Argentina. Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.2, pp.1-16. ISSN 1851-9490.

The history of reading is a tradition that has proliferated in Argentine academia in the last few decades, especially for the studies about the nineteenth century. The product has been a bibliography that sows the study of readers as historical subjects. This construction, we propose, has been made upon a series of theoretical and methodological consensus, in spite of the fact that the starting point was among different disciplinary traditions within the social sciences. Pondering on what has been done, and keeping in mind what is to be done yet, in this article we propose a theoretical dialogue that reflects on the manner that the history of reading has been practiced in our country. We will star with a brief state of the art, dedicated to identify the theoretical underpinnings of the work produce, to then suggest other traditions that may benefit the field of study and enlighten the problems at hand from a different perspective.

Keywords : History of reading; Theory of reception; School of Annales; Cultural studies; Argentina.