Sarmiento on the Conflict between Civilization and Barbarism

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Sarmiento on the Conflict between Civilization and Barbarism

Saturday 15 February 2025 is the 214th anniversary of the birth of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888), who was born in Carrascol, a suburb of San Juan, in north central Argentina, on this date in 1811.

Sarmiento was the seventh president of Argentina and the author of one of the great works of Latin American prose, Life in the Argentine Republic in the days of the Tyrants; or, Barbarism and Civilization. For Sarmiento, cities were the bastion of civilization and the countryside of barbarism, and the Argentine tyrant Juan Manuel de Rosas had risen up from rural barbarism to threaten civilization in Argentina. I examine some of Sarmiento’s presuppositions about the relation of the countryside to civilization.

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Episode: S02EP11

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