Horacio González (1 February 1944 – 22 June 2021) was an Argentine teacher and essayist. Until December 2015, he was the director of the

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Life

Horacio has Italian descent through his maternal grandfather, born in Recanati,

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. He graduated in sociology at the

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in 1970. He got the doctorate of social sciences at the Brazilian

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in 1992. He was a university teacher since 1968, with academic tenure at the University of Buenos Aires, the

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and the Facultad Libre de Rosario. He was part of the ''

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'' group, and he was the director of the

, for the period from 2005 to 2015.

Death

González tested positive for

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on 19 May 2021, and was admitted to the Sanatorium Güemes in Buenos Aires on that day. He died of the disease on 22 June 2021.

Works

* ''La ética picaresca'', 1992. * ''La realidad satírica. Doce hipótesis sobre Página/12'', 1992. * ''Decorados'', 1993. * ''El filósofo cesante'', 1995 * ''Arlt: política y locura'', 1996 * ''La Nación Subrepticia: Lo Monstruoso Y Lo Maldito En La Cultura Argentina'', 1998. * ''Restos pampeanos. Ciencia, ensayo y politica en la cultura Argentina del siglo XX'', 1999. * ''Cóncavo y convexo'', 1999. * ''Historia crítica de la sociología Argentina. Los raros, los clásicos, los científicos, los discrepantes'', 2000. * ''La crisálida. Metamorfosis y dialéctica'', 2001. * ''Retórica y locura. Para una teoría de la cultura Argentina'', 2003 * ''Filosofía de la conspiración. Marxistas, peronistas y carbonarios'', 2004 * ''La memoria en el atril'', 2005 * ''Los asaltantes del cielo. Política y emancipación'', 2006 * ''Escritos en carbonilla. figuraciones, destinos, relatos'', 2006 * ''Perón: reflejos de una vida'', 2007 * ''Paul Groussac: La lengua emigrada'', 2007. * ''Las hojas de la memoria. Un siglo y medio de periodismo obrero y social'', 2007. * ''Beligerancia de los idiomas. Un siglo y medio de discusión sobre la lengua latinoamericana'', 2008 * ''El arte de viajar en taxi. Aguafuertes pasajeras'', 2009.

References

Argentine people of Italian descent Argentine essayists Male essayists Argentine male writers Argentine sociologists University of Buenos Aires alumni University of São Paulo alumni People from Buenos Aires 1944 births 2021 deaths Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina {{Argentina-academic-bio-stub