Juan Carlos Portantiero (Buenos Aires, 1934 – Buenos Aires, 9 March, 2007) was an Argentine sociologist, specializing in the study of the works of Antonio Gramsci.
He graduated in Sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), and went into exile during the Proceso Militar (1976–1983) because of threats received. He relocated to Mexico, where he founded the Controversia journal.
After the return of democracy, he become one of the most respected Argentine scholars and had a direct influence on politics as an advisor to Union Civica Radical president Raul Alfonsin and member of the advising team dubbed Grupo Esmeralda.
He acted as elected dean of UBA's Social Sciences School (1990–1998).
Selected works
- Estudios sobre los origenes del peronismo ("Studies on the Origins of Peronism", 1970), with Miguel Murais
- Los origenes de la sociologia clasica ("Origins of Classical Sociology", 1978)
- Estudiantes y politica en America Latina ("Students and Politics in Latin America", 1978)
- Estado y sociedad en el pensamiento clasico ("State and Society in the Classical Thinking", 1985)
- Ensayos sobre la transicion democratica en la Argentina ("Essays on Argentina's Democratic Transition", 1987)
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