Jordán Bruno Genta
| Jordán Bruno Genta | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 October 1909 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation | Philosopher, writer and journalist |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Argentine |
Jordán Bruno Genta, (2 October 1909 – 27 August 1974) was an Argentine philosopher, political journalist and educator. He was rector of the National Teacher Training Institute.
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Biography
Early life and education
He was born in Buenos Aires, the second son of Carlos Luis Genta (an anarchist, atheist and anticlerical) and Carolina Coli. He received the name of Jordán Bruno in homage to Giordano Bruno. Himself an anarchist, he converted to Catholicism at the age of 31.
Genta completed his secondary education at Colégio Nacional Mariano Moreno. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires in 1933. The following year he began his teaching career at the National University of the Littoral and at the Instituto del Profesorado de Paraná, where he taught Logic and Epistemology, Critique of Knowledge, Sociology and Metaphysics, subjects won by competition and antecedents. At the same time, he began a remarkable process of conversion to Christian philosophy, first, and to the Catholic faith, later.
Career overview
In 1943 he was appointed Dean of the National University of the Littoral and the following year he became rector of the National Teacher Training Institute, a position he held until his dismissal in May 1945. In 1946 he founded a private chair of philosophy, in which he taught until his death. In his works, Genta promoted the hierarchization of knowledge and the promotion of technical studies within the framework of the metaphysics of traditional Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy and the Catholic spirit. Within the framework of this hierarchization of knowledge, technical studies were to be within the reach of the entire population, as well as the humanistic culture of Catholic orientation, and the universities were soon placed at the service of this political-academic project.
He briefly adhered, alongside liberals and Marxists, to the regime of the Liberating Revolution, a coup d'état perpetrated against the constitutional government of Perón. Shortly after, disenchanted with the course taken by the de facto government, he would write a pamphlet entitled La masonería y el comunismo en la revolución del 16 de septiembre (Freemasonry and communism in the revolution of September 16).
He was one of the most noted oponents of both the left and liberalism and defended the establishing in Argentina of a model in which the Church and the Armed Forces were to be the nation supporting pillars. He was the author of the first Army and Air Force instruction manuals on "counterrevolutionary warfare" in the 1960s and throughout the following years.
He was also a professor in the Air Force on subjects such as Freemasonry and Judaism. He later became a regent of the Santa Rita Institute of Private Education.
Monsignor Antonio Caggiano, Cardinal of Buenos Aires, was in charge of giving him his imprimatur regarding religious writings.
Assassination
He was murdered on Sunday, October 27, 1974, on the doorstep of his home, as he was on his way out to attend Sunday Mass in a neighboring parish. A guerrilla command of the so-called ERP-22 de Agosto[1] terrorist group claimed responsibility for the crime. Jordan Bruno Genta went down making the sign of the cross. “Fallen by God and by the Fatherland, he taught with word, life and blood”, read the invitation to mass.
The "Genta Factor"
Genta's ideas influenced some sections of the military de facto governments, especially the National Reorganization Process (1976–1983).
The expression "Genta Factor" was presented in the book Una cara de la Moneda. The book aimed to explain the excellent determination in combat of the Argentine Air Force pilots during the Malvinas War.
In the aforementioned book, published by the British newspaper Sunday Times, the "Genta Factor" was mentioned as a term of art presented in the documents of the British Intelligence. According to its authors, P. Eddy, M. Linklater and other English journalists, in the 60's, the nationalist teaching of Jordán Bruno Genta inspired the future pilots graduated from the Military Aviation School of Córdoba, and was translated into the feats achieved by them during the war of 1982.
Journalist Nicolás Kasanzew interviewed several aviators of outstanding performance during the war who acknowledged the influence that had been exerted at the Jordan Bruno Genta Military Aviation School, particularly through the instructors.[2]
Works
- Acerca de la libertad de enseñar y de la enseñanza de la libertad (1945)
- La idea y las ideologías (1949)
- El Filósofo y los sofistas (1949)
- Libre examen y comunismo (1961)
- Guerra contrarrevolucionaria (1964)
- Edición crítica del «Manifiesto comunista» (1969)
- Jordán Bruno Genta y la gesta de Malvinas (1982)
- Testamento político (1984)
- Principios de política (1970)
Notes
- ↑ La Prensa (14 March 1975).
- ↑ Kasanzew, Nicolás (2019). "El 'Factor Genta' en la Guerra de Malvinas," La Prensa. Retrieved 16 february 2021.
References
- Cousins, Cyrus Stephen (2009). "General Onganía and the Argentine (Military) Revolution of the Right: Anti-Communism and Morality, 1966-1970," Historia Actual, No. 17, pp. 65–79.
- Clementi, Hebe (1988). "El Pensamiento de Jordán Bruno Genta," Todo es Historia, Vol. XXII, No. 253, pp. 38–49.
