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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| Language Notes: | Text in English. Some passages translated from the original Spanish, Portuguese, or French. |
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Amherst, New York :
Cambria Press,
[2020]
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| 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)