La Role of myth in José María Vasconcelos.

Abstract

Stories like the myth of Atlantis have fulfilled a rhetorical function by establishing connecting points for highly fragmented societies. We can appreciate this exercise in foundational myths of emerging nations in the nineteenth century, and builders like in Mexico of the twentieth century in the process of institutionalizing the Revolution of 1910. The speech of Vasconcelos fulfills this motive both in its textual production, as in its oratory and personification itself. Even more, recreate such myths in their educational foundations.