Goodbye to Horacio González
Horacio González, renowned Argentine sociologist, professor, researcher, and essayist, passed away on Tuesday, June 22, at the age of 77. Born in Buenos Aires in 1944, he began his activism in the student movement, eventually becoming president of the Student Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires in the late 1960s. He was one of the professors who taught the National Chairs, established between 1968 and 1972 at the same university, within the Sociology program. These chairs formed a resistance movement against the civic-military dictatorship initiated in 1966 by General Juan Carlos Onganía, which lasted until March 1973.
González, who headed the publications department of the National Library, where he served as Director from 2005 to 2015, taught Aesthetic Theory, Latin American Social Thought, and Argentine Political Thought at several Argentine universities, including those in La Plata and Rosario. He also edited the journal "El ojo mocho" (The Severed Eye), a platform for aesthetic, political, ethical, and philosophical reflections inspired by a critical spirit.
From the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, we express our deep sorrow at such a loss and extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, colleagues, and friends.
Ricardo Forster, Argentine philosopher, professor and essayist, bid farewell to Horacio Gonzalez on CLACSO.TV.
In August 2020, Horacio González shared a virtual meeting with academic Enrique Dussel entitled “Against normality. New political horizons in Latin America”, organized by CLACSO and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
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