Article
French
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Abstract
This article revisits the opposition – a classical one in the history of political ideas – between revolutionary left-wing militant movements and human rights activism. Based on the analysis of an Argentinean militant organisation active in the 1970s and 1980s, it demonstrates that human rights activism can in fact be combined with revolutionary militancy in several ways. This article illustrates how the Argentine human rights space and political world refracted off of each other, producing logics of temporal simultaneity and subjective and organisational superposition. To understand the evolution of either of these two movements, it becomes essential to examine just how closely they were interwoven. We therefore highlight the value of developing a contextual history of ideas based on their uses, by combining the analysis of intellectual phenomena with activist dynamics.