State-Nation: Conceptual Vision and Construction from Domingo F. Sarmiento´s Thought

Abstract

Throughout this article, we pretend to answer which were the main axes of the conceptual vision and construction, as regards the projection of a pattern that allowed inserting the geographical space of the River Plate basin to the evolutionary line of what was considered “civilization”. As aims we propose in the first place, to describe briefly the context in which Sarmiento´s thought develops, trying to evidence how the specifics of the historical coming of this space are reflected in itself. In the second place, to analyze and explain the main ideas from which the author understands that this space must be configured. Third, to put forward limits and opposition to his political project in the last third of the XIX century.