Abstract

LESGART, Cecilia. Intelectuales y académicos produciendo el Bicentenario. Estud. - Cent. Estud. Av., Univ. Nac. Córdoba [online]. 2010, n.23, pp.217-240. ISSN 1852-1568.

The Commemoration of Argentina Bicentenary was characterized by the low presence of the historical dimension in every public speech. Other distinguishing point is that, before 2010, it couldn´t possible to find at the state level public convention for the celebrations or relevant public discussions. These present in the mere conjuncture, and when the government place the celebrations. This paper chose and analyzes two kind of public discourses. They show different ways of making the commemoration of these 200 years until the May Revolution and two antithetic views of knowing the past. Also, there theoretical and historical approaches are illustrative of the particular manner in which the sense of the Bicentenary was build. First, the intellectuals known as «Carta Abierta», which words has a close relation with the government partying. Mere enunciatively and build with a dichotomist aim, the explanation sense was absent. The possibility of new questions about the past was closed because the importance was put up in the intention to prefix a political sense on the past and on the present. In sum, they use History with a strategic and ideological purpose. Second, the group named «Los historiadores y el Bicentenario», in where History was done with the objective to trespass a political or ideological use. The interventions of this grouping of academics, that were more spread inside academics sphere than to a massive public, shows the possibilities to open new questions about the past without the intention to fix sense for the present. In the same way, they demonstrate the obstacles of scientific researches to travel far away from academic specialties turning it relevant for the public.

Keywords : Argentine; Bicentenary; Intellectuals and Politics; Academics and Scientific Production.