Carlos Altamirano Rockefeller Humanities Resident Fellow 1991-92 Peronismo y cultura de izquierda (1955-1965) LATA SIV University of Maryland at College ParkCarlos Altamirano (Argentina, 1939) is Professor of Argentinian and Latin American Thought at the University of Buenos Aires, and Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y ‘Técnicas (CONICET). He has carried out extensive research on cultural history in Argentina. He has published, with Beatriz Sarlo, Conceptos de sociologta literaria (1980), Literatura/Sociedad (1983) and Ensayos argentinos: de Sarmiento a la vanguardia (1983), as well as numerous articles in periodicals and anthologies, such as “El retorno de la idea democrétice en las élites” intelectuales latinoamericanas,” “ ‘Modernidad,’ ‘Modernismo,’ ‘Modernizacién’ y ‘Postmodernidad’,” “Lo imaginario como campo del anélisis hist6rico y social” y “Breve apologfa de la historia intelectual.”Carlos Altamirano Rockefeller Humanities Resident Fellow 1991-92 Peronismo y cultura de izquierda (1955-1965)