Resumen

TINOCO GUERRA, Antonio. Arturo Uslar Prieti and Antipositivism in Venezuela. Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2010, vol.15, n.48, pp.97-105. ISSN 1315-5216.

Antipositivism in Latin America must be seen as a series of tendencies that arose in reaction to the limited interpretation positivism made of continental reality. In the Venezuelan case, antipositivism is very connected to a series of thought tendencies that emerged in the last years of the dictator, Juan Vicente Gomez, among which figure Marxism, social democracy and Christian democracy. Among the most important Venezuelan antipositivist thinkers are Arturo Uslar Pietri, Alberto Adriani, and Mariano Picon Salas. These authors began a reinterpretation of national reality from social, economic, historic and cultural perspectives that were totally different from their predecessors. For the first time, petroleum appears as the energizing element of national life and the central factor that conditions the historical future of the country.

Palabras clave : Alberto Adriani; antipositivism; Arturo Uslar Pietri; Mariano Picon Salas.