An approach to the representation of nation through the nineteenth-century scientific discourse argentina

This research focuses on approaching the construction of meaning the nation through the discursive production of the nineteenth-century scientific enterprise. Building a modern national identity imagination, where scientific and scientistic, speech is entrama to the political project of the Argentine nation State formation. Whereas four dimensions: the modernization project underlying institutional anchorages that translates, the leading historical figures and their interdependence with the political and literary tales. In this sense, the concept of ideological or social - speech - enables the integration of the stories (political, literary, and scientific) circumventing any determination and analytical disjunction positive, to recover the full value of their social and historical incidents in a national sense of poiesis.