Samuel, Manuel Cabanchik (born August 18, 1958) is an

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philosopher, academic and politician. He was elected to the

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in 2007, representing the City of Buenos Aires on the Civic Coalition ticket. He left the Civic Coalition on July 8, 2009, and formed his own parliamentary group, the Federal Buenos Aires Project, and was subsequently considered a circumstantial ally of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner government. Cabanchik is a professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, and conducted research for Conicet, the National Scientific and Technical Research Council.Samuel Cabanchik, un filósofo al Senado
'' La Nación'', 30 October 2007. His books include ''El revés de la filosofía'' (Buenos Aires, Biblos, 1993), ''Introducciones a la Filosofía'' (Barcelona, GEDISA, 2000) and ''El abandono del Mundo'' (Buenos Aires, 2006). Cabanchik was affiliated to the

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but was inactive for several years prior to actively supporting the Civic Coalition of Elisa Carrió. He was elected to the Senate on the list of the Civic Coalition in 2007. On July 8, 2009, he announced he was leaving the Civic Coalition and forming his own parliamentary group, the Federal Buenos Aires Project. He has since become a strong parliamentary ally of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. In 2013, at the end of his Senate term, Cabanchik decided to run for the

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on the Alternativa Popular ticket, which supported the FPV candidates for the Senate,

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, and the chamber of deputies,

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with '' Clarín'', 24 September 2006.

References

Living people Argentine people of Polish-Jewish descent Members of the Argentine Senate for Buenos Aires Jewish Argentine politicians Jewish Argentine writers Jewish philosophers 20th-century Argentine philosophers 1958 births 21st-century Argentine philosophers {{Argentina-politician-stub