BETWEEN TEHRAN AND BUENOS AIRES

THE EXISTENTIALIST REVOLUTION IN HEIDEGGERIAN PERSPECTIVE

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https://doi.org/10.29327/2282886.9.1-2

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Political Existentialism, Insurgent Ontology, Heideggerianism, Iranian Revolution, Peronism

Abstract

This study, through a hermeneutic approach, analyzes the 20th-century revolutionary processes in Argentina and Iran, highlighting their ontological resistance to hegemonic Western modernity narratives. Rooted in Heideggerian ontology, these movements pursue authenticity through immanent (secular, historical) and transcendental (spiritual, religious) perspectives, opposing dominant ideologies. Drawing on native thinkers, it examines how territorial sovereignty affirms distinct temporalities, distinguishing modernity from contemporaneity. The multipolar dynamic of space and time, tensioned between immanence and transcendence, reshapes the global geopolitical order, underscoring the potency of existential insurgencies in shaping a polycentric

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Author Biography

Gabriel Rodrigues Peixoto, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Estratégicos Internacionais (PPGEEI) - UFRGS

PhD candidate in the Postgraduate Program in International Strategic Studies (PPGEEI/UFRGS). Master's degree from the Postgraduate Program in Contemporary Integration of Latin America (PPG-ICAL) at the Federal University for Latin American Integration (Unila).
Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2211385007573411
Email: peixoto.gabriel@ufrgs.br. 

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2025-07-15

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Rodrigues Peixoto, G. (2025). BETWEEN TEHRAN AND BUENOS AIRES: THE EXISTENTIALIST REVOLUTION IN HEIDEGGERIAN PERSPECTIVE. Espirales Journal, 9, e2282886912. https://doi.org/10.29327/2282886.9.1-2

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