Fichte by Taborda: Idealism and Critique of Modernity

Mariano Gaudio

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Pages:: 273–292

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004532984_017

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I shall investigate Saúl Alejandro Taborda’s (1885–1944) appropriation of Fichte’s philosophical, juridical and political thought. Fichte is for Taborda a crucial reference in his configuration of the crisis that the period faces, with respect to both its genesis and its resolution. But he is also a source of inspiration in the spiritualist and idealist climate –in a generic sense– of the early twentieth century in Argentina. This reference to Fichte in Taborda contains a specific way of conceiving Idealism and a critical vision of Modernity. While the former agglutinates and articulates the elements by referring them to an instance of unification, the latter implies dispersion and atomization in a sequence of conflicting relations. In this paper I propose to reconstruct this tension in two moments of Taborda’s work: on the one hand, in Reflexiones sobre el ideal político de América [Reflections on America’s Political Ideal] (1918), where he does not mention Fichte but builds the conceptual framework he will use later; and on the other hand, in Investigaciones pedagógicas [Pedagogical Investigations] (1932 ff.) and, in more detail, in La crisis espiritual y el ideario argentino [The Spiritual Crisis and the Argentine Ideology] (1933). In these two works, Taborda does deal with Fichte and in the latter, he places him in a central place. Such an evocation is not part of a collection of quotations or erudite allusions, but rather assumes the meaning of a strong vindication of the unity of elements and an original appropriation as solution of the epochal crisis.

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Fichte in the Americas

Series: Fichte-Studien, Supplementa, Volume: 30

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004532984

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 May 2023

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- American Studies
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- Philosophy
  - German Idealism

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