Tensions of the Secularization in José Ingenieros travel's chronicles

Abstract

     In 1905, José Ingenieros travelled to Europe. He was the Argentinian delegate to the V Psychology International Congress that took place in Rome. The newspaper La Nación asked him to write a series of “correspondencias”. They were published in that paper and, afterward, they were edited in different books. Our aim in this article is to analyse some chronicles written by Ingenieros, specially those related to the European modern culture and the secularization social and cultural process. Ingenieros talked about himself as a “viajero estudioso” and he observed carefully that phenomenon in different countries. This axis will allow us to go through some interesting topics, for example: the relationship between secularization and urban life, or the mediator role adopted by this intelectual turned into a correspondent as regards his public.