En este artículo, el autor realiza una rápida evaluación de algunas de las ideas de la derecha sobre el Perú para tratar de entender sus cambios profundos. Para ello toma a dos personajes referenciales: el historiador limeño José de la Riva-Agüero y el escritor arequipeño Mario Vargas Llosa. La idea central que recorre estas páginas es que la derecha ha abandonado la preocupación por la nación para priorizar su inserción en la globalización, aun cuando sea ocupando un papel secundario o irrelevante en el escenario mundial. Palabras clave: Intelectuales, ideología, nación, globalización, conservadurismo, derecha peruana.   Abstract In this article, the author makes a quick evaluation of some of the ideas of the right about Peru to try to understand its profound changes. O do this, he takes two referential characters: the Lima historian José de la Riv...

In this article, the author analyzes the intellectual work of Ricardo Palma, identifying him as an intellectual figure that embodies the great representative Peruvian writer. From that location, he describes the relationship he had with different members of the Nine hundred generation, who recognized him as theirmaster and incarnation of the national soul. For this, the author uses firsthand sources, such as personal letters, and known bibliography.

The purpose of this article is to describe the relationships that Ricardo Palma had with Catholicism. In ideological terms, he was a convinced liberal and, in that sense, a critic of religious institutions. However, it is necessary to establish a distinction: Palma understood very well the importance of the religious attitude, which he represented in his famous Peruvian Traditions; and simultaneously he was a persistently and staunchly anticlerical, criticizing and mocking religious ideas and practices.

These lines were pronounced by the author on February 7, 2021 in commemoration of the 188th anniversary of the birth of Ricardo Palma, in an event organized by the Institute that carries his name and is the academic center of the Ricardo Palma University. The author does not refer to the writer’s biography, nor does he analyze his Peruvian traditions, his links with politics or his work as a journalist. He just takes a general look to rescue Palma’s importance in our literature and culture in general by supporting the classic nature he holds. Keywords: intellectual, journalism, politics, literature, biography.

This essay is located temporally in the post oligarchic Peru, in the 70’s, especially in the politic and intellectual scenario that was the result of a new period. In this context took place the renewal of some ideas, it was established for a generation of left –wing young intellectuals engaged in creating and shaping a new society. They got a combination of a deep theoretical reflection and a political action that would significantly renewed social sciences and history. In this new generation of intellectuals would be recognized and well known, Alberto Flores Galindo, as an intellectual, historian and most important ideologist

This article is a review of Guido Podestá Airaldi's voluminous book, Apología del aventurero. José Carlos Mariátegui, by Guido Podestá Airaldi, which allows us to dive into Mariátegui's cultural facet. This is done without the pretentious erudition of the bibliomaniac, but with the pedagogical knowledge of the researcher who seeks in each aspect and topic discussed to propose new interpretations on the most important ideologist that Peru has given to the world. There are many other topics that Podestá unfolds in this book that is called to become fundamental in all study on José Carlos Mariátegui: as the effect that the Italian experience caused in our thinker; moreover, how he analyzed Italy itself and the politics; the relationships that he established with his contemporaries; how he positioned himself in front of the oligarchic political system. In short, an essential reading...

The present study seeks to provide elements that help to understand the meaning of the works of Eguren and Arguedas, fundamental authors of the Peruvian intellectual field, in light of their biographical processes, vital paths, placing them in the incipient intellectual field and knowing the relationships they established with their peers, and how they expressed two different paths of incorporation into the Peruvian intellectual field. With an approach from the critical sociology of intellectuals, which relates the biography of both authors, of the subjects of ideas with their reflections or creations with the specific society in which they arise and act.

En este artículo, a partir de cartas personales, el autor recorre las trayectorias de Ricardo Palma y Francisco García Calderón Landa, ambospersonajes fundamentales de la vida cultural y política de la historia del Perú. En ellas encuentra las desavenencias que los separaron, pero también los espacios de cultura que compartieron.

El ensayo sigue la huella biográfica y bibliográfica de Clemente Palma, hijo mayor del tradicionista. Se expone su trayectoria periodística y su mentalidad política (Prisma, Vanidades, La Crónica); su importancia como escritor “dentro de la órbita del modernismo sin ser modernista”, su carrera como literato de lo fantástico (cuentos malévolos); de la ciencia ficción (Granja Blanca) del vampirismo (“Vampiras”); de sus novelas inconclusas y editadas; de sus “crónicas político-doméstico-taurinas”. También aparece, en extenso, la concepción de Clemente Palma sobre el Perú a través de una obra pedagógica-literaria del mismo título referido a la imagen del país en lo geográfico, racial, social, político, etc, como inicio de la recolonización de la identidad de nuestras repúblicas.

Me quiero referir en esta oportunidad a la revista Presente (en el primer número con el subtítulo Periódico inactual; en el segundo Revista de Arte, Literatura, Crítica), poco comentada por los estudiosos. Su comité de redacción lo componían el poeta César Barrio, el historiador Jorge Basadre, el crítico musical Carlos Raygada, el escritor Luis Alberto Sánchez y el educador Alcides Spelucín. Tuvo efímera vida, solo salieron tres números entre julio de 1930 y el segundo semestre de 1931, donde ya aparece como director Carlos Raygada. Lamentablemente, en la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú solo se conservan dos números, el primero y el tercero, pero ambos son suficientes para calibrar la importancia de esta publicación.

El presente artículo explora las principales contribuciones académicas a las ciencias sociales por parte del sociólogo peruano Guillermo Rochabrum. Reconocido  teórico, consecuente y abnegado para comprender la manera en que los  intelectuales peruanos han construido sus modelos de interpretación desde el marxismo, así como ser un testimonio de vida para entender la relación que se ha establecido entre el marxismo y la política, de la cual se mantuvo siempre alejado. Para este estudio, se toman como referencias algunas conversaciones realizadas con el autor y su obra monumental, Batallas por la teoría. En torno a Marx y el Perú, compuesta por artículos y ensayos, inéditos,  escritos entre los años 1974 y 2003.  También, a sus aportes, se resaltan otras presentes en sus textos que no fueron consideradas en la compilación inicial. Sin pretender constituir...

El presente artículo, que tiene como objetivo explicar la relación intelectual-sentimentalde Ventura García Calderón con la cultura francesa, está dividido en las siguientessecciones: Primero, estudio al escritor y su relación con la lengua y cultura francesapara señalar que aun cuando haya producido una literatura en otro idioma sigue siendoperuana. Segundo, analizo el papel que como diplomático le tocó desempeñar en Europaen plena Guerra Mundial a partir de los informes que enviaba en su momento a Lima,enhebrando su actuación con la de su hermano Francisco. Tercero, comento su bellolibro La Francia que amamos, en el que sintetiza las razones de su identificación condicho país. Finalizo con algunas reflexiones generales acerca del desarraigo, la literaturay la identidad.

En este artículo se destaca una faceta poco conocida de Ricardo Palma, la de pedagogo en tanto asume su papel como “gran escritor”, a partir de la respuesta que escribe ante la duda de un joven universitario, publicada en la revista Actualidades sobre lo que considera un error gramatical del tradicionista.

A trail of mystery has remained about Teodomiro Gutiérrez. He was a military man who sympathetic to the claims leading a rebellion. Some suppose that he died in some confrontation against the forces of order; others that after the conflict disappeared without a trace but material for the legend. In this article the author tries to elucidate some these questions on the basis of unpublished letter from the Andrés A. Cáceres of the National Library of Peru.

During the first third of the 20th century, the conservative sectors were involved in the intellectual discussion of national affairs. Among different ideas, these sectors came to embraced Fascism, the totalitarian ideology from the interwar period in Europe. This article analyzes the career and thoughts of two prominent scholars from the era who were seduced by Fascism: historian José de la Riva Agüero and playwright Felipe Sassone. It also examines the significance of the distance –physical and/or mental– from their country, to think of a Peru that seemed alien to them, and doing so from a visibly foreign perspective to the national reality and social dynamics in the 1930s. At the end, these two ways of conceiving Fascism revealed the intellectual inability from a sector to understand their country, and led to their exclusion from the political debate.

In this article, the author explains how the failure of the Tupacamarista project would open the way for the ideas and actions of the Creoles, and these, through the privileged use of writing, would dominate the world of ideas and, therefore, hence, of ideological projects. Following the route of the transformations of the Creole group, he analyzes its socio-cultural composition and its ideas. The pre-1781 indigenous would no longer have the possibility of resurgence, even when the Creole contingent loses consistency, that is, its capacity as a political subject would no longer be irrelevant. From the middle of the 20th century, the ideological field to be conquered would be disputed by what was left of the small Creole contingent and by the diffuse elements left by the process of postinternal migration cholification and post-Velasquista reforms. Later, Fujimori politics would modify the...

This article analyzes the set of reflections on Víctor Andrés Belaunde ‘s politics, characterized by the integral meaning he gave to his work. Thus, he addressed national problems from different disciplines: constitutional law, history, sociology, philosophy, theology, social psychology, international law, even from the political culture. As a result, Belaunde elaborates one of the most original analyzes of Peruvian political thought that the author tries to summarize and interpret in these pages.

In this article, the author makes reference to the intellectual figure which the philosopher Pedro Zulen represents in the Peruvian intellectual process within the social, cultural and political dynamic context which the Peruvian society experienced in the first decades of the XXth century, critical times of renewal of national life. For that, the author explores Zulen’s ideas and relates him with other important thinkers of his times.

In the following pages, the author describes and analyzes the role of the Sociedad Editora Amauta founded in Lima in 1926 by brothers José Carlos and Julio César Mariátegui, both to influence the intellectual, artistic and ideological debate and to impact the littler expanded market of the printed object, thanks to the printing of the Amauta magazine and a set of books, mainly. To achieve their goals, the business brothers would weave a wide network of agents distributed throughout much of the national territory, as well as a system of alliances with some foreign publisher and authors.

This essay is located temporally in the post oligarchic Peru, in the 70’s, especially in the politic and intellectual scenario that was the result of a new period. In this context took place the renewal of some ideas, it was established for a generation of left –wing young intellectuals engaged in creating and shaping a new society. They got a combination of a deep theoretical reflection and a political action that would significantly renewed social sciences and history. In this new generation of intellectuals would be recognized and well known, Alberto Flores Galindo, as an intellectual, historian and most important ideologist