Pigna teaches at the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini, directing the Ver la Historia project that produced 13 documentaries covering the 1776–2001 period of the History of Argentina. He is a columnist, appears on radio programs, and contributes to newspapers and magazines such as Noticias, Veintitrés and Todo es Historia. He is the director of Caras y Caretas magazine.
He has served as a history adviser for TV networks such as HBO, People and Arts, Italy's RAI, and Spain's Antena 3. He was a columnist of Historia Confidencial, an Argentine TV show.
Pigna is a CEO and writes for the historically focused website El Historiador (The Historian). He is often seen in the media talking about historical subjects. He is the host of Vida y Vuelta, a television program of historical documentaries and interviews.
The works of Felipe Pigna are not aimed to the academic public, but to the masses. To this purpose, he employs slang, plain language, and some humor and references to the reader.[2] He attempts to relate historical Argentina with modern Argentina, setting parallels between past and modern events or circumstances. He considers that events do not really repeat themselves exactly because circumstances change, but the consequences are likely to be broadly the same, such as wealth gaps leading to authoritarian governments.[3] His works usually describe history as a dispute between the people and the powerful classes, where the latter ones oppressed the population both now and then, and even so people would manage to achieve some victories, even if short-lived.[4]
Historians Tulio Halperín Dongui and Luis Alberto Romero made strong criticism of Pigna's style, and refuse to consider his work as real history books even if Pigna is a professional historian.[5] They consider that his works do not show historiographical culture, general culture or literary talent,[6] and that the works cited in them are misquoted or taken out of context.[7] Pigna uses as a pretext that foreign works accept and acknowledge subjective views, and his aim was to make the history of Argentina easy to understand by all people. Furthermore, he insists that an opposing approach to the topic was elitist, revealing a completely lack of objectivity in his writings .[8]
1810 – La otra historia de nuestra Revolución fundadora, Editorial Planeta, Buenos Aires 2010 ISBN978-950-49-2288-9
Libertadores de América (2010)
Mujeres tenían que ser (2011)
Referencesedit
^Felipe Pigna: "Me gustaría que mis críticos se tomen el trabajo de leerme" Nobody will spend time reading me, because I'm a biased history writer. (in Spanish)
^"Muchos de nuestros intelectuales tienen un carácter elitista y tilingo" (in Spanish) (interview)
Bibliographyedit
Devoto, Fernando (2010). Historiadores, ensayistas y gran público. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos. ISBN978-950-786-778-1.
External linksedit
Official webpage of Felipe Pigna on El Historiador(in Spanish)
Felipe Pigna personal site 12 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine(in Spanish)
January 01, 1970
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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Felipe Pigna news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2022 Learn how and when to remove this message Felipe Pigna born 29 May 1959 is an Argentine historian and writer He is among the best selling authors from Argentina 1 Felipe PignaHistorian Felipe PignaBorn 1959 05 29 29 May 1959 age 64 Mercedes ArgentinaOccupationHistorian writerLanguageSpanishNationalityArgentineAlma materInstituto Nacional Joaquin V GonzalezNotable worksLos mitos de la historia argentina I II III amp IVWebsitepigna wbr com wbr ar Contents 1 Biography 2 Style 3 Works 4 References 5 Bibliography 6 External linksBiography editPigna teaches at the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini directing the Ver la Historia project that produced 13 documentaries covering the 1776 2001 period of the History of Argentina He is a columnist appears on radio programs and contributes to newspapers and magazines such as Noticias Veintitres and Todo es Historia He is the director of Caras y Caretas magazine He has served as a history adviser for TV networks such as HBO People and Arts Italy s RAI and Spain s Antena 3 He was a columnist of Historia Confidencial an Argentine TV show Pigna is a CEO and writes for the historically focused website El Historiador The Historian He is often seen in the media talking about historical subjects He is the host of Vida y Vuelta a television program of historical documentaries and interviews With Mario Pergolini Pigna wrote produced and hosted Algo habran hecho por la historia argentina a TV show aired in 2005 and later released in a set of DVDs which combines documentary humor and free reenactments of historical events The show granted him a Martin Fierro award and in his acceptance speech he dedicated the prize to some of his historical national heroes namely Mariano Moreno Juan Jose Castelli Manuel Belgrano and Manuel Dorrego Style editThe works of Felipe Pigna are not aimed to the academic public but to the masses To this purpose he employs slang plain language and some humor and references to the reader 2 He attempts to relate historical Argentina with modern Argentina setting parallels between past and modern events or circumstances He considers that events do not really repeat themselves exactly because circumstances change but the consequences are likely to be broadly the same such as wealth gaps leading to authoritarian governments 3 His works usually describe history as a dispute between the people and the powerful classes where the latter ones oppressed the population both now and then and even so people would manage to achieve some victories even if short lived 4 Historians Tulio Halperin Dongui and Luis Alberto Romero made strong criticism of Pigna s style and refuse to consider his work as real history books even if Pigna is a professional historian 5 They consider that his works do not show historiographical culture general culture or literary talent 6 and that the works cited in them are misquoted or taken out of context 7 Pigna uses as a pretext that foreign works accept and acknowledge subjective views and his aim was to make the history of Argentina easy to understand by all people Furthermore he insists that an opposing approach to the topic was elitist revealing a completely lack of objectivity in his writings 8 Works editSome of Pigna s works include Historia El mundo contemporaneo 2000 ISBN 950 534 616 6 Historia La Argentina contemporanea 2000 ISBN 950 534 651 4 Pasado en Presente 2001 Historia Confidencial 2003 ISBN 950 49 0991 4 Los mitos de la historia argentina 2004 ISBN 987 545 149 5 The Myths of Argentine History 2005 ISBN 987 545 228 9 Los Mitos de la Historia Argentina 2 2005 ISBN 950 49 1342 3 Lo pasado pensado 2005 Los mitos de la historia argentina 3 2006 Historia confidencial with Jose Ignacio Garcia Hamilton and Pacho O Donnell 1810 La otra historia de nuestra Revolucion fundadora Editorial Planeta Buenos Aires 2010 ISBN 978 950 49 2288 9 Libertadores de America 2010 Mujeres tenian que ser 2011 References edit Felipe Pigna Me gustaria que mis criticos se tomen el trabajo de leerme Nobody will spend time reading me because I m a biased history writer in Spanish Devoto p 119 Felipe Pigna La historia no se repite continua in Spanish interview Devoto p 126 Devoto p 131 Devoto p 131 Devoto p 130 133 Muchos de nuestros intelectuales tienen un caracter elitista y tilingo in Spanish interview Bibliography editDevoto Fernando 2010 Historiadores ensayistas y gran publico Buenos Aires Editorial Biblos ISBN 978 950 786 778 1 External links editOfficial webpage of Felipe Pigna on El Historiador in Spanish Felipe Pigna personal site Archived 12 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine in Spanish Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Felipe Pigna amp oldid 1217349679, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
