One of the most recognized and influential persons of Argentine and Latin American culture is José Ingenieros (1877–1925). He was a psychologist, criminologist, philosopher, and culture historian, among other callings. He made pioneering contributions in all these areas and many of them are still relevant today, a century later. His contributions to the psychology of the time were very influential, including his books, conferences, articles, the journals he founded, his professorship at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (University of Buenos Aires), and his participation in the intellectual life of that era, in Argentina and worldwide.
His family immigrated to Argentina. Ingenieros studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires and graduated in 1900. Some of his biographers (Torchia-Estrada, 1961, 1967) divide the life of José Ingenieros into several periods; (1) The socialist, a period during which he wrote a work entitled What is socialism?(1895) and when he was also elected as...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Ardila, R. (1970). José Ingenieros, psychologist. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 6, 41–47.
Bagú, S. (1936). Vida ejemplar de José Ingenieros [Examplary life of José Ingenieros]. Claridad.
Bermann, G. (1926). José Ingenieros. Gleizer.
Ingenieros, J. (1937). Obras completas [Complete works]. Rosso.
Ingenieros, J. (1961). Antología. Su pensamiento en sus mejores páginas [Anthology. His thinking in his best pages]. Losada.
Peralta, J. H. (1922). La psicología científica del Dr. José Ingenieros [The scientific psychology of Dr. José Ingenieros]. Vinces.
Torchia-Estrada, J.C. (1961). La filosofía en Argentina [Philosophy in Argentina]. Unión Panamericana.
Torchia-Estrada, J. C. (1967). Tres pensadores en la vida intelectual argentina: Ingenieros, Korn, Romero [Three thinkers in Argentinian intelectual life: Ingenieros, Korn, Romero]. Journal of Interamerican Studies, 9, 248–272.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Section Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this entry
Cite this entry
Ardila, R. (2022). Ingenieros, José. In: The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38726-6_502-1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38726-6_502-1
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-38726-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-38726-6
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and PsychologyReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences