Corporalidad, civilidad y ciudadanía en México: Don Justo de José Gómez Robleda (1940-1950)

• Gustavo Adolfo Enríquez Gutiérrez ^[1] ; Uziel Mauricio Morales Hernández ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Pedagógica Nacional-Morelos
• Localización: Ludus vitalis: revista de filosofía de las ciencias de la vida = journal of philosophy of life sciences = revue de philosophie des sciences de la vie, ISSN 1133-5165, Vol. 28, Nº. 54, 2020, págs. 21-39
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  • This text approaches José Gómez Robleda’s investigations on the body and citizenship from 1940 to 1950 in Mexico. The analysis interprets his novel Don Justo, starting from the conceptual, operative, and political administration of the ‘average man’ and its body. This text studies the discourse of Don Justo, with emphasis on the idea of corporal citizenship through Foucault’s biopower, while its analytical framework parts from the biotypology posit by author of the novel. The main conclusions point at: A) The idea of the body as the guiding axis of the Mexican citizenship conformation in the mid-twentieth century. B) Eugenics—through racialism, Modernity, and the development of capacities—will constitute, on the individual, moral and social dimensions, the formalizations of the Mexican citizenship quality.