Abstract
This article deals with the subject's of Ernesto Sabato's main essay Hombres y Engranajes, and analyses the context which helps to explain his intellectual development since the 40's. Consciousness of the crisis of modernity and philosophical vindication of subjectivity are the two fundamantal ideas in the essay. From Sabato's point of view, rationalism as the dominant paradigm of western thought leaves aside decisive aspects of Man 's knowledge and has also lead to the dangerous excesses of technology. This critical view of rationalism relates Sabato to a series of authors among which we may point out Christian existentialists such as Nikolai Berdiaev and philosophers such as Martin Buber; it also places him in an antagonistic position in relation to philosophers such as Jean- Paul Sartre or Lewis Mumford and the marxist movement.
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