Kantian Idealism beyond the Argentine Academy.

Anti-positivism, Reform and Revolution (1910-1930)

Abstract

The article traces the extra-academic circulation of Kant in Argentina in the first decades of the twentieth century. It begins by reviewing the "anti-positivist reaction" to argue that, along with the challenge to scientism, a polemic unfolded on the anti-positivist front between an academicist Kantianism, driven by Coriolano Alberini, and another concerned with the elevation of culture from an ethical socialism that went beyond the classroom and was led by Alejandro Korn. Two other areas of Kant's reception are then analysed: that of the anarchists who sought to renew the libertarian doctrine based on the innovations of the Russian Revolution, and that of the different factions of the political-cultural movement of the University Reform.