Exile, Pedagogy, and Marxism: The Intellectual Journey of Tomás Vasconi (Chile, 1966-1973)

Abstract

In the following article we seek to clarify the process of radicalization experienced in the work of the Argentine sociologist Tomás Amadeo Vasconi. His works on educational themes developed at the beginning of the 1970s have been considered as the translation into the educational field of the approaches of the French philosopher Louis Althusser. In the research we have compiled the works produced during Vasconi's exile in Chile, between 1966 and 1973, which has allowed us to identify the passage from developmentalist approaches to the search for a Marxist theory of education. In this sense, we propose that Vasconi's intellectual production in the period is the result of the link between the theory of dependency and the debates within the European left-wing intellectual field.