Notas en torno a la enunciación de José Vasconcelos en La raza cósmica

Abstract

This article analyzes Vasconcelos’ La raza cosmica (1925) and underlines its enunciation: the individual act of appropriating of the public language –according to Benveniste’s definition. My goal is demonstrating how his grandiloquent, civilizing, racist and aesthetic thesis–summarized in the cosmic project–belong to a very specific national and global frame. I identify traces of six discourses in Vasconcelos’ proposal: the Mexican Revolution, the Western crisis during the inter-war period, the Ateneo de la Juventud’s reaction against the positivism, the mestizofilia, the North-American continentalism, and the Latinamerican continentalismo.