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Octavio Paz is one of the most recognized Latin American writers. His essays offer a sophisticated critique of global modernity. Although his work has advanced many of the arguments that orient our contemporary debates in the social sciences and in philosophy, it has hardly ever been seriously taken...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2015. ©2009 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Der Mensch im Netz der Kulturen - Humanismus in der Epoche der Globalisierung / Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures - Humanism in the Age of Globalization ;
volume 5 |
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| Summary: |
Octavio Paz is one of the most recognized Latin American writers. His essays offer a sophisticated critique of global modernity. Although his work has advanced many of the arguments that orient our contemporary debates in the social sciences and in philosophy, it has hardly ever been seriously taken into consideration in these disciplines. The volume suggests that this may have been a mistake. Its authors indicate ways in which Paz' essays can be read as substantial contributions to the contemporary debates in various fields. The aim of this book is to present to a non-Spanish speaking audience some of the discussions about Paz' offerings to the ongoing debates. It also wants to make a clear statement: a critique of our contemporary modernity must go hand in hand with a non-exclusive intercultural understanding of Humanism. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (266 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839413043 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | PQ7297 |
| CLC: | I731.065 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Content -- Foreword / Introduction: Crossing Borders, Reaching Humanity / Theodor W. Adorno and Octavio Paz A Comparison of their Early Cultural-Philosophical Writings Published after the Second World War / Theodor W. Adorno and Octavio Paz: Two Critiques of the Same Modernity / Socialism in One Person: Specter of Marx in Octavio Paz s Political Thought / Octavio Paz reads Moses and Monotheism / Octavio Paz, Mexican Muralist / On Visual Modernity and Poetic Critique, between Octavio Paz and Walter Benjamin / Duchamp According to Octavio Paz / The Sociology of Octavio Paz / The Walls of the Labyrinth: Mapping Octavio Paz s Sociology through Georg Simmel s Method / Luz inteligente: The Anthropological Dimension in Octavio Paz s First Essays / Octavio Paz s Poetic Reply to Hegel s Philosophical Legacy / To Hear the Inaudible, To See the Imperceptible: Modernity and Otherness in Octavio Paz / The Blue Fire of the Double Flame / Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names. |