Abstract

HAIDAR, Victoria. The Liberalism and the matter of the "free men". An analysis of its problematization in the Argentinean liberal camp between 1955 and 1973. Espiral (Guadalaj.) [online]. 2016, vol.23, n.66, pp.41-75. ISSN 1665-0565.

Through the analysis of a corpus of documents, we reconstruct the problematization about the "freedom" and "free men" that was developed in the field of argentine liberalism between 1955 and 1973. We show how, from different places of enunciation, the question of subjectivity required for the functioning of liberal democracy led to the establishment of a series of nested oppositions. Reinforced by an instrumental vision of political freedoms, the idea that, in Argentinean society, there was a part of the population that was not truly free, would contribute to render acceptable the proscription of Peronism during those years, without involve contradiction with democracy.

Keywords : Liberalism; free men; unfreedom; democracy; history.