Author: Jorge Larraín
Publisher: LOM Ediciones
ISBN: 9560001779
Category : Political Science
Languages : es
Pages : 165
Book Description
Este volumen cierra la serie de cuatro libros en torno al concepto de ideología y entra de lleno en el pensamiento contemporáneo hasta los primeros años del siglo XXI.En él queda de manifiesto el protagonismo que ha adquirido el tema del lenguaje en las diversas corrientes de las Humanidades y las Ciencias Sociales y el modo en que “el giro lingüístico” -como se le ha conocido- ha gravitado en los estudios. La preocupación por el discurso, su naturaleza y sus condiciones no han hecho sino aumentar, instalando, igualmente, una profunda reflexión acerca del sujeto, la razón, el problema de las identidades y de la determinación económica. De este modo, la noción de verdad es puesta rápidamente en entredicho hasta ser disuelta como valor inmutable. El propio concepto de ideología es abandonado y reemplazado por una lógica de la diferencia construida discursivamente por figuras de la talla de Foucault, Lyotard y Laclau en su crítica al estructuralismo. No obstante ello, reaparece un concepto crítico de ideología tanto en el postmodernismo como en el postmarxismo: ya no se trata de cualquier discurso, sino de aquel que pretende fijar significados y tener la verdad. Así, este concepto recupera su sentido negativo que alguna vez tuvo, pero reencuentra, paradójicamente en una época que sospecha de la epistemología, una cierta utilidad crítica, asilándose en una perspectiva relativista.
El Concepto de Ideología Vol. 4.
Author: Jorge Larraín
Publisher: LOM Ediciones
ISBN: 9560001779
Category : Political Science
Languages : es
Pages : 165
Book Description
Este volumen cierra la serie de cuatro libros en torno al concepto de ideología y entra de lleno en el pensamiento contemporáneo hasta los primeros años del siglo XXI.En él queda de manifiesto el protagonismo que ha adquirido el tema del lenguaje en las diversas corrientes de las Humanidades y las Ciencias Sociales y el modo en que “el giro lingüístico” -como se le ha conocido- ha gravitado en los estudios. La preocupación por el discurso, su naturaleza y sus condiciones no han hecho sino aumentar, instalando, igualmente, una profunda reflexión acerca del sujeto, la razón, el problema de las identidades y de la determinación económica. De este modo, la noción de verdad es puesta rápidamente en entredicho hasta ser disuelta como valor inmutable. El propio concepto de ideología es abandonado y reemplazado por una lógica de la diferencia construida discursivamente por figuras de la talla de Foucault, Lyotard y Laclau en su crítica al estructuralismo. No obstante ello, reaparece un concepto crítico de ideología tanto en el postmodernismo como en el postmarxismo: ya no se trata de cualquier discurso, sino de aquel que pretende fijar significados y tener la verdad. Así, este concepto recupera su sentido negativo que alguna vez tuvo, pero reencuentra, paradójicamente en una época que sospecha de la epistemología, una cierta utilidad crítica, asilándose en una perspectiva relativista.
Publisher: LOM Ediciones
ISBN: 9560001779
Category : Political Science
Languages : es
Pages : 165
Book Description
Este volumen cierra la serie de cuatro libros en torno al concepto de ideología y entra de lleno en el pensamiento contemporáneo hasta los primeros años del siglo XXI.En él queda de manifiesto el protagonismo que ha adquirido el tema del lenguaje en las diversas corrientes de las Humanidades y las Ciencias Sociales y el modo en que “el giro lingüístico” -como se le ha conocido- ha gravitado en los estudios. La preocupación por el discurso, su naturaleza y sus condiciones no han hecho sino aumentar, instalando, igualmente, una profunda reflexión acerca del sujeto, la razón, el problema de las identidades y de la determinación económica. De este modo, la noción de verdad es puesta rápidamente en entredicho hasta ser disuelta como valor inmutable. El propio concepto de ideología es abandonado y reemplazado por una lógica de la diferencia construida discursivamente por figuras de la talla de Foucault, Lyotard y Laclau en su crítica al estructuralismo. No obstante ello, reaparece un concepto crítico de ideología tanto en el postmodernismo como en el postmarxismo: ya no se trata de cualquier discurso, sino de aquel que pretende fijar significados y tener la verdad. Así, este concepto recupera su sentido negativo que alguna vez tuvo, pero reencuentra, paradójicamente en una época que sospecha de la epistemología, una cierta utilidad crítica, asilándose en una perspectiva relativista.
Contested Cities and Urban Activism
Author: Ngai Ming Yip
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811317305
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811317305
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south.
Transparency and Critical Theory
Author: Jorge I. Valdovinos
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303095546X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the critique of contemporary ideology, offering an innovative genealogy of one of its most fundamental discursive manoeuvres: the ideological effacement of mediation. Providing a comprehensive historical revision of media (from the Greeks to the Internet), this book identifies several critical junctures at which the tension between visibility and invisibility has overlapped with conceptions of neutrality—a tension best incarnated in today's use of the word transparency. Then, it traces this term's evolving semantic constellation through a variety of intellectual discourses, exposing it as a key operator in the revaluation of ideals, sensibilities, and modalities of perception that lie at the core of our contemporary attention-based economy.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303095546X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the critique of contemporary ideology, offering an innovative genealogy of one of its most fundamental discursive manoeuvres: the ideological effacement of mediation. Providing a comprehensive historical revision of media (from the Greeks to the Internet), this book identifies several critical junctures at which the tension between visibility and invisibility has overlapped with conceptions of neutrality—a tension best incarnated in today's use of the word transparency. Then, it traces this term's evolving semantic constellation through a variety of intellectual discourses, exposing it as a key operator in the revaluation of ideals, sensibilities, and modalities of perception that lie at the core of our contemporary attention-based economy.
Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events
Author: Anne Siegetsleitner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110702398
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Contemporary deep-reaching changes – whether in financial or real economy, in Europe’s political conditions, in the context of scientific theories, in the field of global (environmental) security, or gender relations – are also a challenge to philosophy. The volume comprises cutting-edge scholarly articles from renowned philosophers with various geographical backgrounds and from different philosophical strands. Next to investigating general questions as to the relation of philosophy and critique (What is philosophical critique and which philosophical concepts of critique are of importance today? Where do we need it most? Where are its limits?), the articles focus on issues like theories of democracy and modes of election; the roles of emotions in the political realm; challenges from a widespread discontent in society to politics and science; changes to social identities and different theoretical approaches to social identity formation. The book is indispensable for all who are interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say on crucial issues of our time.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110702398
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Contemporary deep-reaching changes – whether in financial or real economy, in Europe’s political conditions, in the context of scientific theories, in the field of global (environmental) security, or gender relations – are also a challenge to philosophy. The volume comprises cutting-edge scholarly articles from renowned philosophers with various geographical backgrounds and from different philosophical strands. Next to investigating general questions as to the relation of philosophy and critique (What is philosophical critique and which philosophical concepts of critique are of importance today? Where do we need it most? Where are its limits?), the articles focus on issues like theories of democracy and modes of election; the roles of emotions in the political realm; challenges from a widespread discontent in society to politics and science; changes to social identities and different theoretical approaches to social identity formation. The book is indispensable for all who are interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say on crucial issues of our time.
Speaking of Spain
Author: Antonio Feros
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674045513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Spains -- 2. Spaniards -- 3. The Others Within -- 4. The Others Without -- 5. A New Spain, a New Spaniard -- 6. Race and Empire -- 7. From Empire to Nation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674045513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Spains -- 2. Spaniards -- 3. The Others Within -- 4. The Others Without -- 5. A New Spain, a New Spaniard -- 6. Race and Empire -- 7. From Empire to Nation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Discourses of the Elders: The Aztec Huehuetlatolli A First English Translation
Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324020598
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
“A dazzlingly fresh take on universal themes.… [B]ursting with practical wisdom.” —Skye C. Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic A philosophy grounded not in a transcendent divinity, afterlife, or individualism, but in a rooted communal life. Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove false, or at least deeply misleading? The Aztecs of central Mexico had a rich philosophical tradition, recorded in Latin script by Spanish clergymen and passed down for centuries in the native Nahuatl language—one of the earliest transcripts being the Huehuetlatolli, or Discourses of the Elders, compiled by Friar Andrés de Olmos circa 1535. Novel in its form, the Discourses consists of short conversations between elders and young people on how to achieve a meaningful and morally sound life. The Aztecs had a metaphysical tradition but no concept of “being.” They considered the mind an embodied force, present not just in the brain but throughout the body. Their core values relied on collective responsibility and group wisdom, not individual thought and action, orienting life around one’s actions in this realm rather than an afterlife, distinctly opposed to the Christian beliefs that permeate Europe and America. Sebastian Purcell’s fluency in his grandmother’s native Nahuatl brings to light the Aztec ethical landscape in brilliant clarity. Never before translated into English in its entirety, and one of the earliest post-contact texts ever recorded, Discourses of the Elders reflects the wisdom communicated by oral tradition and proves that philosophy can be active, communal, and grounded not in a “pursuit of happiness” but rather the pursuit of a meaningful life.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324020598
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
“A dazzlingly fresh take on universal themes.… [B]ursting with practical wisdom.” —Skye C. Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic A philosophy grounded not in a transcendent divinity, afterlife, or individualism, but in a rooted communal life. Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove false, or at least deeply misleading? The Aztecs of central Mexico had a rich philosophical tradition, recorded in Latin script by Spanish clergymen and passed down for centuries in the native Nahuatl language—one of the earliest transcripts being the Huehuetlatolli, or Discourses of the Elders, compiled by Friar Andrés de Olmos circa 1535. Novel in its form, the Discourses consists of short conversations between elders and young people on how to achieve a meaningful and morally sound life. The Aztecs had a metaphysical tradition but no concept of “being.” They considered the mind an embodied force, present not just in the brain but throughout the body. Their core values relied on collective responsibility and group wisdom, not individual thought and action, orienting life around one’s actions in this realm rather than an afterlife, distinctly opposed to the Christian beliefs that permeate Europe and America. Sebastian Purcell’s fluency in his grandmother’s native Nahuatl brings to light the Aztec ethical landscape in brilliant clarity. Never before translated into English in its entirety, and one of the earliest post-contact texts ever recorded, Discourses of the Elders reflects the wisdom communicated by oral tradition and proves that philosophy can be active, communal, and grounded not in a “pursuit of happiness” but rather the pursuit of a meaningful life.
Critical Marxism in Mexico
Author: Stefan Gandler
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004284680
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría have made to universal thought. While in recent times Latin America has taken its distance from global power centers, and reorganised its political and economic relations, in philosophy the same tendency is barely visible. Critical Marxism in Mexico is a contribution to the reorganisation of international philosophical discussion, with Critical Theory as the point of departure. Despite having studied in Europe, where philosophical Eurocentrism remains virulent, Gandler opens his eyes to another tradition of modernity and offers an account of the life and philosophy of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría, former senior faculty members at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004284680
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría have made to universal thought. While in recent times Latin America has taken its distance from global power centers, and reorganised its political and economic relations, in philosophy the same tendency is barely visible. Critical Marxism in Mexico is a contribution to the reorganisation of international philosophical discussion, with Critical Theory as the point of departure. Despite having studied in Europe, where philosophical Eurocentrism remains virulent, Gandler opens his eyes to another tradition of modernity and offers an account of the life and philosophy of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría, former senior faculty members at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Building a Nation
Author: Juan Carlos Mercado
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761801146
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book is the only one of its kind on the market. It deals with one of the most brilliant yet least known Latin American authors, Esteban EcheverrÌa. EcheverrÌa was the author of La Cautiva (The Captive), El Matadero (The Slaughterhouse), and Dogma Socialista (Socialist Dogma) which formed the base of the constitution of the Republic of Argentina. In Building A Nation, Juan Carlos Mercado recovers the figure of EcheverrÌa through an analysis centralized in his work as a poet, thinker, and politician--all as one unit. The study takes into account the many sources, including European ones, that EcheverrÌa used in order to formulate a literary and political national project. Readers of this work will acquire a thorough understanding of the significance of EcheverrÌa's influence--from the introduction of European Romanticism into Argentine Literature; to the initiation of a critical and realistic narrative style never yet seen before in Argentina; to the founding of a liberal-humanist tendency which went on to acquire definitive political shape for the country.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761801146
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book is the only one of its kind on the market. It deals with one of the most brilliant yet least known Latin American authors, Esteban EcheverrÌa. EcheverrÌa was the author of La Cautiva (The Captive), El Matadero (The Slaughterhouse), and Dogma Socialista (Socialist Dogma) which formed the base of the constitution of the Republic of Argentina. In Building A Nation, Juan Carlos Mercado recovers the figure of EcheverrÌa through an analysis centralized in his work as a poet, thinker, and politician--all as one unit. The study takes into account the many sources, including European ones, that EcheverrÌa used in order to formulate a literary and political national project. Readers of this work will acquire a thorough understanding of the significance of EcheverrÌa's influence--from the introduction of European Romanticism into Argentine Literature; to the initiation of a critical and realistic narrative style never yet seen before in Argentina; to the founding of a liberal-humanist tendency which went on to acquire definitive political shape for the country.
Identity and Modernity in Latin America
Author: Jorge Larrain
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745667511
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships. Drawing on a large body of work across a vast historical and geographical range, he offers an innovative and wide-ranging account of the cultural transformations and processes of modernization that have occurred in Latin America since colonial times. The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the concepts of modernity and identity. In contrast to theories which present modernity and identity in Latin America as mutually excluding phenomena, the book shows their continuity and interconnection. It also traces historically the respects in which the Latin American trajectory to modernity differs from or converges with other trajectories, using this as a basis to explore specific elements of Latin America's culture and modernity today. The originality of Larrain's approach lies in the wide coverage and combination of sources drawn from the social sciences, history and literature. The volume relates social commentaries, literary works and media developments to the periods covered, to the changing social end economic structure, and to changes in the prevailing ideologies. This book will appeal to second and third-year undergraduates and Masters level students doing courses in sociology, cultural studies and Latin American history, politics and literature. .
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745667511
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships. Drawing on a large body of work across a vast historical and geographical range, he offers an innovative and wide-ranging account of the cultural transformations and processes of modernization that have occurred in Latin America since colonial times. The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the concepts of modernity and identity. In contrast to theories which present modernity and identity in Latin America as mutually excluding phenomena, the book shows their continuity and interconnection. It also traces historically the respects in which the Latin American trajectory to modernity differs from or converges with other trajectories, using this as a basis to explore specific elements of Latin America's culture and modernity today. The originality of Larrain's approach lies in the wide coverage and combination of sources drawn from the social sciences, history and literature. The volume relates social commentaries, literary works and media developments to the periods covered, to the changing social end economic structure, and to changes in the prevailing ideologies. This book will appeal to second and third-year undergraduates and Masters level students doing courses in sociology, cultural studies and Latin American history, politics and literature. .
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Author: Dolores Moyano Martin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292752313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Dolores Moyano Martin, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 1977, and P. Sue Mundell was assistant editor from 1994 to 1998. The subject categories for Volume 56 are as follows: ∑ Electronic Resources for the Humanities ∑ Art ∑ History (including ethnohistory) ∑ Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) ∑ Philosophy: Latin American Thought ∑ Music
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292752313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Dolores Moyano Martin, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 1977, and P. Sue Mundell was assistant editor from 1994 to 1998. The subject categories for Volume 56 are as follows: ∑ Electronic Resources for the Humanities ∑ Art ∑ History (including ethnohistory) ∑ Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) ∑ Philosophy: Latin American Thought ∑ Music