TY - JOUR AU - Piana, Federico Pablo PY - 2019/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Genesis of the Argentine national being: the (de)construction of a soul JF - ReligaciĆ³n JA - rgn VL - 4 IS - 21 SE - General Section DO - UR - https://revista.religacion.com/index.php/religacion/article/view/505 SP - 9-16 AB - In this paper we try to identify the construction of the Argentine national being from the Revolution of May 1810 to approximately 1910, thus encompassing a century of history by which the configuration of the national being was systematically constructed. The thought of different protagonists of Argentine history, who through their essays, hegemonically constructed how the nationality of this country should be shaped, is studied. These characters formed different historical generations in Argentina such as the Generation of 37, the Generation of 80 and the Centennial Generation. From the deconstructive theory of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, we examine in this way how was generated this national being that, as will be seen at the end of the essay, the nation is nothing other than the intellectual construction of a premeditated spiritual being. ER -