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| Eudeba | |
|---|---|
| Name | Eudeba |
| Founded | 1958 |
| Founder | Arturo Frondizi |
| Country | Argentina |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires |
| Publications | Books, Journals |
| Topics | Humanities, Social Sciences, Science |
Eudeba is the university press of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, established to disseminate academic works by Argentine and international scholars. The press has published textbooks, monographs, critical editions, and translations, serving students and researchers across Latin America. Over decades it has intersected with political currents involving presidents, ministers, unions, and cultural institutions.
Eudeba was created during the administration of Arturo Frondizi with ties to the Universidad de Buenos Aires and missions resonant with policies of the Peronism era; its timeline runs through periods associated with Juan Perón, Revolución Libertadora, Isabel Perón, Jorge Rafael Videla, Raúl Alfonsín, Carlos Menem, Néstor Kirchner, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Early directors collaborated with figures from the Argentine Socialist Party, the Radical Civic Union, and intellectual circles including Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Rojas, and Leopoldo Lugones. During the 1960s and 1970s Eudeba published works by scholars connected to Diego Portales, Rodolfo Walsh, Juan José Saer, and translators influenced by Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Under the National Reorganization Process, the press faced purges affecting staff and catalogues, intersecting with organizations such as Madres de Plaza de Mayo and legal frameworks like the Ley de Punto Final and Ley de Obediencia Debida. Democratic restorations under Raúl Alfonsín and later presidencies saw reconstitution and expansion, engaging with ministries led by ministers like Alicia Moreau de Justo-adjacent figures and collaborations with institutions such as the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, and universities including Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, and Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
Eudeba operates as a publishing house affiliated to the Universidad de Buenos Aires with governance influenced by the university's Consejo Superior, deans from faculties like Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, and Facultad de Derecho, and liaison with national agencies including the Ministerio de Educación and the Secretaría de Cultura. Its board historically included representatives from academic councils, faculty associations such as Asociación Gremial Docente, and student organizations like La Cámpora and Franja Morada at various moments. Operational departments mirror structures found at presses such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Editorial Sudamericana, and Siglo Veintiuno Editores, covering editorial, production, distribution, legal, and rights offices. Financial oversight has involved negotiation with bodies including the Ministerio de Economía, provincial governments like Provincia de Buenos Aires, and funding instruments analogous to grants from CONICET or cultural funds administered through the Consejo Federal de Inversiones.
Eudeba's output encompasses textbooks for faculties across Universidad de Buenos Aires departments, critical editions of authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Esteban Echeverría, and Leopoldo Lugones, and scholarly monographs in fields represented by professors like Norberto Bobbio, Ernesto Laclau, Rodolfo Kusch, and Alberto Borrini. It has produced translations of works by Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, and John Rawls. Journals and series have paralleled publications from Anales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires and collaborations with international presses such as University of Chicago Press, Harvard University Press, Fondo de Cultura Económica, and Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires. Distribution networks extended to bookstores like El Ateneo Grand Splendid, academic bookshops, and libraries including Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación Argentina and university libraries in Rosario, Mendoza, and Salta.
Eudeba has issued works by prominent Argentine and Latin American intellectuals including Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Ernesto Sabato, Ricardo Piglia, Silvina Ocampo, Victoria Ocampo, Leopoldo Marechal, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Beatriz Sarlo, Ricardo Halac, Noé Jitrik, Néstor Fernández, Néstor Perlongher, Alejandra Pizarnik, Osvaldo Bayer, Rodolfo Walsh, Juan José Hernández Arregui, Carlos Astrada, Jorge Abelardo Ramos, and José Ingenieros. It has also printed Spanish translations and critical studies of international authors such as William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway.
Eudeba has served as a primary supplier of academic texts to faculties and secondary institutions, influencing curricula at Facultad de Medicina (UBA), Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA), Facultad de Derecho (UBA), and teacher-training colleges linked to provincial education secretariats. Its cultural role connected it to festivals and events such as the Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires, debates hosted by Centro Cultural Borges, exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, and radio and television programs on Radio Nacional and Canal 7. Engagements included collaborations with think tanks like Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento and research bodies such as FLACSO and IADB cultural initiatives.
Eudeba's catalogue and management have been affected by political interventions during the National Reorganization Process and other authoritarian episodes, involving censorship actions akin to those seen in the cases of Jorge Rafael Videla's regime and disputes with publishers such as Editorial Sudamericana and Grupo Clarín. Conflicts led to seizures, fires, and legal disputes similar to notable episodes involving public presses in Chile and Spain under censorship laws predating democratic restoration; these episodes intersected with activists from Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre, journalists from Página/12, and human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch. Later controversies touched on accusations over pricing, monopolistic practices compared to controversies involving Editorial Paidós and state subsidies debated in congresses convened by deputies from Unión Cívica Radical and Frente para la Victoria, prompting scrutiny by judiciary bodies including the Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación.
Category:Publishing companies of Argentina Category:Universidad de Buenos Aires