Omar Acha (born July 1971 in Argentina) is an Argentine historian and political essayist. He is a researcher at the

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Consejo is a village in the north of Corozal District, Belize. Consejo is located on a point of land where the bays of Corozal and Chetumal meet. Consejo is about 8 miles (12.9 km) from the district capital of Corozal Town, and across the wate ...

and also at the Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas (Argentina). He teaches

Philosophy of History Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. The term was coined by French philosopher Voltaire. In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between ''speculative'' philosophy of history and ''crit ...

at the

Universidad de Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one of the most prestigi ...

. He was also a member of the editorial board of ''Herramienta. Revista de Teoría y Crítica Marxista'', published in Buenos Aires. His main fields of expertise are

Marxism Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

Socialism Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

Psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

Peronism Peronism, also called justicialism,. The Justicialist Party is the main Peronist party in Argentina, it derives its name from the concept of social justice., name=, group= is an Argentine political movement based on the ideas and legacy of Ar ...

Social History Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

Intellectual History Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual histor ...

Works

* ''El sexo de la historia. Intervenciones de género para una crítica antiesencialista de la historiografía'', Buenos Aires, El Cielo por Asalto, 2000. 156 p. . * ''Cuerpos, géneros e identidades. Estudios de historia de género en Argentina'' (compilación junto a Paula Halperin), Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Signo, 2000, 308 p. . * ''Carta abierta a Mariano Grondona. Interpretación de una crisis argentina'', Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, 2003. * ''La trama profunda. Historia y vida en José Luis Romero'', Buenos Aires, El Cielo por Asalto, 2005, 193 p. . * ''La nación futura. Rodolfo Puiggrós en las encrucijadas argentinas del siglo XX'', Buenos Aires, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 2006, 330 p. . * ''Freud y el problema de la historia'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2007, 168 p. . * ''La nueva generación intelectual. Incitaciones y ensayos'', Buenos Aires, Herramienta Ediciones, 2008, 197 p. . * ''Las huelgas bancarias, de Perón a Frondizi (1945-1962). Contribución a la historia de las clases sociales en la Argentina'', Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, 2008, 254 p. . * ''Historia crítica de la historiografía argentina. Vol. 1. Las izquierdas en el siglo XX'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2009. 383 p. . * ''Inconsciente e historia después de Freud. Cruces entre psicoanálisis, historia y filosofía'' (compilación junto a Mauro S. Vallejo), Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2010, 286 p. . * ''Los muchachos peronistas. Orígenes olvidados de la Juventud Peronista, 1945-1955'', Buenos Aires, Planeta, 2011, 252 p. . * ''El hecho maldito. Conversaciones para otra historia del peronismo'' (en colaboración con Nicolás Quiroga), Rosario, Prohistoria Ediciones, 2012, 236 p. . * ''Un revisionismo histórico de izquierda. Y otros ensayos de política intelectual'', Buenos Aires, Herramienta Ediciones, 2012, 206 p. . * ''Crónica sentimental de la Argentina peronista. Sexo, inconsciente y política, 1945-1955'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2013, 409 p. . * ''Cambiar de ideas. Cuatro tentativas sobre Oscar Terán'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2017, 192 p. . * ''Encrucijadas de psicoanálisis y marxismo. Ensayos sobre la abstracción social'', Buenos Aires, Teseo, 2018, 176 p. . * ''La Argentina peronista. Una historia desde abajo (1945-1955)'', Buenos Aires, Red Editorial, 2019, 88 p. . * ''Marxismo e historia. Deconstrucción y reconstrucción del materialismo histórico'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2023, 245 p. .

References

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