Abstract

This dissertation presents an interpretation of being in the pampas as a journey from ancient Greece to the plains of Argentina. It is a story of the pampas, about a plain, untamed, limitless territory. It is also a story of some of the dwellers of that territory: gauchos, hares, national heroes, and captive women. ;The notion of being is discussed in terms of place as excessive, boundless, apeiron. The dissertation traces this notion of being back to the primordial unfolding of the Eleatic philosophers Parmenides and Zeno. This interpretation also takes into account the way that Argentine writers have understood Western philosophy and its place in the Argentine pampas