ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book presents Gino Germani's life-long struggle against totalitarianism. Gino shared an anti-fascist commitment with part of Francisco Romero, the doyen of philosophy. Gino's wish to return to the university world may have also played a role in this institutional development. For the truth is that Romero was not especially interested in sociology. On the other hand, Jose Luis Romero, from the history department, was deeply committed to the restoration of sociology. Another person who supported a new sociology program at the University of Buenos Aires was yet another vigorous anti-fascist, the philosopher of science, Mario Bunge. Mario was a philosopher of science and social science strongly opposed to either theological or political control of the Faculty. Because of his anti-fascist stand, his superb background in physics, he became one of the very first new appointments in the post-Peron epoch at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.
