Entre la historia y la justicia: algunos debates acerca de la represión en la Argentina del siglo XX. Sobre democracia y terrorismo de estado en argentina, de Dante Vega
; Rodriguez Agüero, Laura Mercedes 
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09/2025
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Programa Interuniversitario de Historia Política
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El estudio de la represión política estatal en Argentina ha tenido un significativo desarrollo en el campo académico local al punto de constituirse en uno de los problemas de mayor relevancia de la agenda historiográfica. Distintas investigaciones han abordado las lógicas, los dispositivos y los mecanismos que estructuraron los procesos represivos dando cuenta de la complejidad que implica su estudio, particularmente durante la última dictadura militar. La mayor parte de estas investigaciones provienen de las ciencias sociales y humanas, siendo escasos los abordajes desde el campo judicial. Así como en más de una oportunidad se ha insistido en el hecho de que la Historia llegó tarde –en comparación con las ciencias sociales– al estudio de la represión en el pasado reciente, el autor del libro advierte que los juicios de lesa humanidad han abierto interrogantes de los que no se han ocupado las ciencias jurídicas. Han sido las ciencias sociales las que han tratado el problema del castigo o los límites temporales y personales de la persecución penal a diferencia del Iluminismo “donde los penalistas desplazaron a los filósofos” (2022, p. 12). En este marco, Democracia y terrorismo de Estado en Argentina de Dante Vega constituye una novedad al ser un texto que conjuga distintos discursos y disciplinas. Desde esta amalgama el libro analiza, tal como el autor plantea en la introducción, “la fractura social que produjo el terrorismo de Estado en la sociedad argentina y las formas con que el Estado de Derecho intentó repararla” (p. 9).
The study of state political repression in Argentina has had a significant development in the local academic field up to the point of becoming one of the most relevant problems on the historiographical agenda. Different studies have addressed the logic, devices and mechanisms that defined the repressive processes, taking into account the complexity that their study implies, particularly during the last military dictatorship. Most of these researches come from the social and human sciences, with few approaches from the judicial field. Just as on more than one occasion it has been insisted on the fact that History arrived late –compared to the social sciences– to the study of repression in the recent past, the author of the book warns that the trials of crimes against humanity have raised questions that have not been addressed by the legal sciences. It has been the social sciences that have dealt with the problem of punishment or the temporal and personal limits of criminal prosecution, unlike the Enlightenment “where penalists displaced philosophers” (p. 12). In this context, Dante Vega's Democracy and State Terrorism in Argentina is a novelty, being a text that combines different discourses and disciplines. From this merger, the book analyzes, as the author states in the introduction, "the social fracture that State terrorism produced in Argentine society and the ways in which the Rule of Law tried to repair it" (p. 9).
The study of state political repression in Argentina has had a significant development in the local academic field up to the point of becoming one of the most relevant problems on the historiographical agenda. Different studies have addressed the logic, devices and mechanisms that defined the repressive processes, taking into account the complexity that their study implies, particularly during the last military dictatorship. Most of these researches come from the social and human sciences, with few approaches from the judicial field. Just as on more than one occasion it has been insisted on the fact that History arrived late –compared to the social sciences– to the study of repression in the recent past, the author of the book warns that the trials of crimes against humanity have raised questions that have not been addressed by the legal sciences. It has been the social sciences that have dealt with the problem of punishment or the temporal and personal limits of criminal prosecution, unlike the Enlightenment “where penalists displaced philosophers” (p. 12). In this context, Dante Vega's Democracy and State Terrorism in Argentina is a novelty, being a text that combines different discourses and disciplines. From this merger, the book analyzes, as the author states in the introduction, "the social fracture that State terrorism produced in Argentine society and the ways in which the Rule of Law tried to repair it" (p. 9).
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