Philosophy and criticism in Latin America : from Mariátegui to Sloterdijk /

"The objective of this book is not to recognize once again the sources of pre-Hispanic Amerindian or Afro-Hispanic thought in different regions and historical moments--a task that other critics have already accomplished admirably. Nor does this book attempt to return to the debates around the e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moraña, Mabel (Author)
Other Authors: Ascherl, Andrew (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English. Some passages translated from the original Spanish, Portuguese, or French.
Published: Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2020]
Series:Cambria studies in Latin American literatures and cultures series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Philosophy and criticism
  • Part I: Biopower, coloniality, and emancipation in Latin America. Mariátegui in recent debates: emancipation, (in)dependence, and "vestigial colonialism" in Latin America
  • 1492: Enrique Dussel's contributions to the rediscovery of the Americas
  • Bolívar Echeverría and Latin America: the open agenda
  • Modernity and violence
  • Journey to the heart of meloncholia: disenchantment and (post)modernity in Roger Bartra
  • Biopolitics and the social body in Latin America
  • Part II: Critico-philosophical rereadings and debates. Foucault and Latin America: appropriations and debates
  • The philosophy of Walter Benjamin and peripheral modernity
  • Bourdieu at the periphery: cultural capital and the literary field in Latin America
  • Scarcity, modernity, globalization: from precariousness to the precariat
  • The toolkit of affect
  • The question of humanism in Latin America: blind spots and lines of flight
  • Humanism and biopolitics: monsters in the human zoo (à propos Peter Sloterdijk)