Abstract
This article revises the process of institutionalization of philology in Argentinathrough the study of a number of documents unknown to date: the letterssent by Américo Castro, the first director of the Institute of Philologyat the University of Buenos Aires, to Ramón Menéndez Pidal and TomásNavarro Tomás, of the Center for Historical Studies in Madrid. The analysisof this material demonstrates that the foundation of the Institute involvedthe articulation of competing views concerning the definition of its institutionalagenda. The cultural discourses of nationalism and Hispanism, aswell as some preestablished notions on the relationship betwee specializedknowledge and society, triggered a series of conflicts between the Center’spolitical and cultural aims, and the Argentine interests surrounding theconstitution of the discipline.Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (1947-), volume 66, 2, July-December 2018, is a semi-annual publication edited by El Colegio de México, Carretera Picacho Ajusco 20, Ampliación Fuentes del Pedregal, Tlalpan, C.P. 14110, Mexico City, Mexico, Tel. (55) 5449-3000, http://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/NRFH, nrfh@colmex.mx. Editor: Pedro Martín Butragueño. Assistant editors: Alejandro Rivas and Jesus Jorge Valenzuela. All Rights Reserved: 04-2015-070112341900-203, ISSN (print): 0185-0121, ISSN (electronic): 2448-6558, as registered with the National Copyright Institute. Typographical composition: El Atril Tipográfico. Person in charge of updating this issue: Perla Reyna Muñoz; date of last update: June 26, 2018.
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