Drunk, crazy, animal: drifts of life and body in Manuel T. Podestá's Irresponsible

Within the historical and cultural processes experienced by Argentina in the late nineteenth century, it is possible to detect a significant transformation around the ways of thinking, studying and representing the human body the human body in its biological facet. Favored by the hegemony of a philo...

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Autor principal: Simari, Leandro Ezequiel
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2018
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animalidad
biopolítica
higienismo
Manuel Podestá
novela naturalista
animality
biopolitics
hygienism
naturalistic novel
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spelling I10-R377-article-228632025-11-30T15:40:04Z Drunk, crazy, animal: drifts of life and body in Manuel T. Podestá's Irresponsible Ebrio, loco, animal: derivas de la vida y el cuerpo en Irresponsable de Manuel T. Podestá Simari, Leandro Ezequiel animalidad biopolítica higienismo Manuel Podestá novela naturalista animality biopolitics hygienism Manuel Podestá naturalistic novel Within the historical and cultural processes experienced by Argentina in the late nineteenth century, it is possible to detect a significant transformation around the ways of thinking, studying and representing the human body the human body in its biological facet. Favored by the hegemony of a philosophical current of positivist orientation, the early dissemination and high acceptance of scientific or supposedly scientific discourses about this subject will invite to extrapolate the biologicist perspective to the social field, in synchrony with the initiatives of a national Estate in the process of consolidation that seeks to incorporate the biological life of a growing and diversified population under its sphere of influence. This paper analyzes the ways in which Irresponsable (1889), naturalist novel by the higyenistic physician Manuel Podestá, sets diseased bodies that open dialogue between literary fiction and topics, dilemmas and rhetorical turns of the imaginary of that time, while they give cohesion to a plot that chains institutional spaces where diverse forms of knowledge and power are folded over the life. If the programmatic and propagandistic vein of the novel exalts the medical-scientific credo of the author, the narrative development of his first literary text will allow to glimpse the crises and tensions within the so-called scientific culture. Dentro de los procesos históricos y culturales que experimenta la Argentina de finales del siglo XIX, es posible detectar una significativa transformación en torno a los modos de pensar, estudiar y representar el cuerpo humano en su faceta biológica. Favorecidos por la hegemonía de una corriente filosófica de corte positivista, la pronta difusión y la alta aceptación de discursos científicos o pretendidamente científicos en torno a esta materia invitarán a extrapolar la perspectiva biologicista al terreno de lo social, en sincronía con las iniciativas de un Estado nacional en vías de consolidación que busca incorporar bajo su esfera de influencia la vida biológica de una población creciente y diversificada. El presente trabajo analiza los modos en que Irresponsable (1889), novela naturalista del médico higienista Manuel Podestá, configura cuerpos enfermos que abren el diálogo entre la ficción literaria y los tópicos, dilemas y giros retóricos de ese imaginario de época, al tiempo que dan cohesión a una trama que encadena espacios institucionales donde diversas modalidades de saber y poder se pliegan sobre la vida. Si la veta programática y propagandística de la novela enaltece el credo médico-científico de su autor, el desarrollo narrativo de su primer texto literario permitirá vislumbrar las crisis y tensiones dentro de la llamada cultura científica. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2018-12-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/22863 10.53971/2718.658x.v9.n14.22863 Recial; Vol. 9 Núm. 14 (2018): Dossier: Del Barroco y el Neobarroco 2718-658X 1853-4112 10.53971/2718.658x.v9.n14 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/22863/22463 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/22863/html Derechos de autor 2018 Recial https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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biopolítica
higienismo
Manuel Podestá
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animality
biopolitics
hygienism
Manuel Podestá
naturalistic novel
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biopolítica
higienismo
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novela naturalista
animality
biopolitics
hygienism
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naturalistic novel
Simari, Leandro Ezequiel
Drunk, crazy, animal: drifts of life and body in Manuel T. Podestá's Irresponsible
topic_facet animalidad
biopolítica
higienismo
Manuel Podestá
novela naturalista
animality
biopolitics
hygienism
Manuel Podestá
naturalistic novel
author Simari, Leandro Ezequiel
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title Drunk, crazy, animal: drifts of life and body in Manuel T. Podestá's Irresponsible
title_short Drunk, crazy, animal: drifts of life and body in Manuel T. Podestá's Irresponsible
title_full Drunk, crazy, animal: drifts of life and body in Manuel T. Podestá's Irresponsible
title_fullStr Drunk, crazy, animal: drifts of life and body in Manuel T. Podestá's Irresponsible
title_full_unstemmed Drunk, crazy, animal: drifts of life and body in Manuel T. Podestá's Irresponsible
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description Within the historical and cultural processes experienced by Argentina in the late nineteenth century, it is possible to detect a significant transformation around the ways of thinking, studying and representing the human body the human body in its biological facet. Favored by the hegemony of a philosophical current of positivist orientation, the early dissemination and high acceptance of scientific or supposedly scientific discourses about this subject will invite to extrapolate the biologicist perspective to the social field, in synchrony with the initiatives of a national Estate in the process of consolidation that seeks to incorporate the biological life of a growing and diversified population under its sphere of influence. This paper analyzes the ways in which Irresponsable (1889), naturalist novel by the higyenistic physician Manuel Podestá, sets diseased bodies that open dialogue between literary fiction and topics, dilemmas and rhetorical turns of the imaginary of that time, while they give cohesion to a plot that chains institutional spaces where diverse forms of knowledge and power are folded over the life. If the programmatic and propagandistic vein of the novel exalts the medical-scientific credo of the author, the narrative development of his first literary text will allow to glimpse the crises and tensions within the so-called scientific culture.
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