This book is the first comprehensive account of the Argentine magazine
Punto de Vista (1978-2008), a cultural review that gathered together
prominent Argentine intellectuals throughout the last quarter of the
twentieth century. Directed by cultural historian and public
intellectual Beatriz Sarlo, the story of the magazine serves as a lens
to study the evolution of Argentine intellectuals from the leftist
mobilization of the 1960s through periods of military dictatorship and
then the shifting politics of democratization in the 1980s and 1990s.
The book argues that the way in which the Argentine intellectual left
negotiated the political and cultural transformations of the late
twentieth century can be understood as the history of two political
defeats: that of the revolutionary utopias of the 1960s and 1970s and
that of the social democrat project in the 1980s. By adopting an
interdisciplinary approach, this book encompasses a wide range of
debates taking place in Argentina, from the years prior to the
dictatorship to the postdictatorship period.