ABSTRACT
In Argentina, the intellectual figures, their political and aesthetic debates and their cultural enterprises, have been less considered in the studies of the right that cover the period opened with the democratic reopening in 1983 than in the previous stages. The academic literacy that analyses the Argentine right during this period has focused on how it has been reformulated in the democratic context, on the progressive neoliberal hegemony, on the reconstruction of the right after the 2001 crisis, and on the current interest in the new right. However, these works did not show great interest in the figure of intellectuals like the ones that analyse previous periods. The formation of the conservative order in the nineteenth century, the crisis of 1930, the rise of Peronism or the period of democratic instability from 1955 to 1983, in effect, present greater academic contributions and more direct and comprehensive approaches to the ideas, actions or main actors of Argentine right. This chapter seeks to analyse how the intellectual universe of the Argentine right was articulated after 1983. To achieve this objective, it will dwell on three key processes: the way in which the liberal-conservative tradition has accomplished a progressive hegemony within the right-wing field, the neoliberal reformulation of this tradition, the ways in which the current context allows us to review the dynamics that marked the decades after democratic return.
