Omar Acha (born July 1971 in Argentina) is an Argentine historian and political essayist. He is a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and also at the Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas (Argentina). He teaches

Philosophy of History Philosophy of history is the philosophy, philosophical study of history and its academic discipline, discipline. The term was coined by the French philosopher Voltaire. In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between the ''specul ...

at the

Universidad de Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires (, UBA) is a public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the second-oldest university in the country, and the largest university of the country by enrollment. Established in 1821, the UBA has educa ...

. He was also a member of the editorial board of ''Herramienta. Revista de Teoría y Crítica Marxista'', published in Buenos Aires. His main fields of expertise are

Marxism Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, ...

Socialism Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

Psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

Peronism Peronism, also known as justicialism, is an Argentine ideology and movement based on the ideas, doctrine and legacy of Juan Perón (1895–1974). It has been an influential movement in 20th- and 21st-century Argentine politics. Since 1946, P ...

Social History Social history, often called history from below, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Social history came to prominence in the 1960s, spreading f ...

Intellectual History Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualization, conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of ...

Works

* ''El sexo de la historia. Intervenciones de género para una crítica antiesencialista de la historiografía'', Buenos Aires, El Cielo por Asalto, 2000. 156 p. . * ''Cuerpos, géneros e identidades. Estudios de historia de género en Argentina'' (compilación junto a Paula Halperin), Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Signo, 2000, 308 p. . * ''Carta abierta a Mariano Grondona. Interpretación de una crisis argentina'', Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, 2003. * ''La trama profunda. Historia y vida en José Luis Romero'', Buenos Aires, El Cielo por Asalto, 2005, 193 p. . * ''La nación futura. Rodolfo Puiggrós en las encrucijadas argentinas del siglo XX'', Buenos Aires, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 2006, 330 p. . * ''Freud y el problema de la historia'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2007, 168 p. . * ''La nueva generación intelectual. Incitaciones y ensayos'', Buenos Aires, Herramienta Ediciones, 2008, 197 p. . * ''Las huelgas bancarias, de Perón a Frondizi (1945-1962). Contribución a la historia de las clases sociales en la Argentina'', Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, 2008, 254 p. . * ''Historia crítica de la historiografía argentina. Vol. 1. Las izquierdas en el siglo XX'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2009. 383 p. . * ''Inconsciente e historia después de Freud. Cruces entre psicoanálisis, historia y filosofía'' (compilación junto a Mauro S. Vallejo), Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2010, 286 p. . * ''Los muchachos peronistas. Orígenes olvidados de la Juventud Peronista, 1945-1955'', Buenos Aires, Planeta, 2011, 252 p. . * ''El hecho maldito. Conversaciones para otra historia del peronismo'' (en colaboración con Nicolás Quiroga), Rosario, Prohistoria Ediciones, 2012, 236 p. . * ''Un revisionismo histórico de izquierda. Y otros ensayos de política intelectual'', Buenos Aires, Herramienta Ediciones, 2012, 206 p. . * ''Crónica sentimental de la Argentina peronista. Sexo, inconsciente y política, 1945-1955'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2013, 409 p. . * ''Cambiar de ideas. Cuatro tentativas sobre Oscar Terán'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2017, 192 p. . * ''Encrucijadas de psicoanálisis y marxismo. Ensayos sobre la abstracción social'', Buenos Aires, Teseo, 2018, 176 p. . * ''La Argentina peronista. Una historia desde abajo (1945-1955)'', Buenos Aires, Red Editorial, 2019, 88 p. . * ''Marxismo e historia. Deconstrucción y reconstrucción del materialismo histórico'', Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2023, 245 p. .

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