El político según la visión de Roberto Brenes Mesén y su correlación con el retrato gubernativo costarricense

Abstract

Roberto Brenes Mesén (1874- 1947) published in 1941 the essay “El político” in Repertorio Americano, as part of a series of invectives concerning the crisis of the Costa Rican liberal State (1914-1949) and the dictatorship (1917- 1919) of Federico Tinoco Granados. His study addresses the political ideal with philosophical arguments derived from the Platonic approaches: ex. g. the virtue and necessity of a just State. The theoretical approach of the Costa-Rican intellectual is closely related to the portraiture production of the Gallery in the Costa-Rican Parliament, as to the sacredness of the political figure and the creation of a positive collective imagination. However, Roberto Brenes Mesén contrasts this ideal with the real scenario of Costa-Rican politics. This job aims to contrast the two discourses, wherein the image becomes a remembered device of a fictional reality.