The Reception of the Wissenschaft der Logik in the Argentinean philosophy (1932 - 1956)

Abstract

The reception of G. W. F. Hegel's Wissenschaft der Logik in Argentine philosophy was late and focal. The almost null attention to the speculative aspect of Hegelian philosophy during nineteenth-century positivism was followed by a superficial interest in the first decades of the twentieth century, which resulted in two commentaries on the Wissenschaft der Logik: La Lógica de Hegel by M. A. Virasoro (1932) and Hegel y la dialéctica by C. Astrada (1956). For Virasoro the work represented a logical position opposed to the formal one with gnoseological and metaphysical derivations; for Astrada it exposed the foundation of the dialectical method, which had ontological and political relevance. Both philosophers coincided in a critical interest in the work and in an exegetical privilege of the Doctrine of Being over the Essence and the Concept. The differences and continuities between the two interpretations shaped the initial reception of the Wissenschaft der Logik in Argentine philosophy.