Resumen

HERRERO, Alejandro. Juan Bautista Alberdi and French Political Ideas: In search of an Alternative Project to the Rosist Order (1835-1852). Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2010, vol.15, n.48, pp.75-85. ISSN 1315-5216.

The objective of this study is to re-think certain classic theses regarding the influence of French political culture on the first Argentinean Romantic generation and especially, on the thought of Juan Bautista Alberdi during the second government of Juan Manuel de Rosas, 1835-1852. The study will try to discover the uses Alberdi made of the different French ideological families; which ideas and experiences he selected and how he organized his alternative project to the Rosist confederation. Two periods are distinguished in Alberdi’s process during this stage: his youthful years adhere to what is called a democratic republic, while in the 1940s, he expounds his celebrated program for the possible republic.

Palabras clave : Argentina; France; ideas; politics.