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Nationality
  
Argentine

Name
  
Juan Sebreli


Role
  
Essayist

Region
  
Western philosophy

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Born
  
November 3, 1930 (age 94) (
1930-11-03
)

Main interests
  
epistemologyexistentialismliterary criticismsociology

Areas of interest
  
Sociology, Existentialism, Literary criticism, Epistemology

Philosophical era
  
Contemporary philosophy, 20th-century philosophy

Influenced by
  
Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Juan José Sebreli (seˈbɾɛli; born 3 November 1930) is an Argentine sociologist, essayist and philosopher. Throughout his intellectual work, he concentrated on the notions of reason, city and everyday life.

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Life

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Inspired by Gay Power movement, he was co-founder of Frente de Liberación Homosexual ("Gay Liberation Front") along with Manuel Puig and Néstor Perlongher, in the last years of the self-called Argentine Revolution. The organization of the group was an adaptation of the democratic centralist partisan model.
In years that followed the last coup d'état he directed study groups that were called "Universidad de las Sombras" ("University of Shadows"). As suggested by its name, it had a secret status, which was a consequence of the Dirty War, that is, political persecution and forced disappearance carried out by the military government, both being crimes against humanity.
Sebreli is mainly known because of his past collaboration with cultural magazines, such as Contorno and Sur. Nowadays he is columnist for La Nación and Perfil newspapers and Ñ magazine.

Populism

In his work, Sebreli is radically critic of populism. His arguments are characterized by a sharp focus in the Argentine heterogeneous experiences of Peronism, movement he describes as fascist in its core. He criticizes the figure of Juan Domingo Perón, depicting him as an authoritarian and charismatic leader, thus making use of Weberian categories of thought. Sebreli states that the persistence of Peronism could be understood if one considers that, as a matter-of-fact, "there are sectors in the Argentine society that have a (pretended) lack of memory and are prone to self-deception". In one of his latest books ("El malestar en la política", 2012), he argues that Kirchnerism is a form of "latinoamerican neopopulism" and "plebiscitary caesarism", for it perfectly contrasts with a democratic republic.

Irrationalism

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Sebreli is quite known due to his criticism of 'irrational' theoretical inquiries. His arguments are an effort to corrode the foundations of psychoanalysis, and it is for that reason he labels such discipline as pseudoscience, following Karl Popper, as it lacks a proper scientific method. He asserts that Schopenhauer is "the true father of modern irracionalism", and that along with Dostoievski and Nietzsche he contributed to the transformation of philosophy in art, the aestheticization of life and thought.

Existentialism and political ideology

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Sebreli was member of the so-called “first Argentine existentialist group” along with Oscar Masotta and Carlos Correas. He introduced Jean-Paul Sartre into the academic milieux of his time. Molded in Hegelian and Marxist Left, he introduced the political thought of Alexandre Kojève and that of Tran Duc Thao. Sebreli defines himself as social-democrat, "in an european sense."


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References

Juan José Sebreli Wikipedia


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