Notas en torno a la enunciación de josé vasconcelos en la Raza Cósmica

Abstract

This article analyzes Vasconcelos' La raza cósmica (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.