Mexican Modernity and Anti-modernity. Diana Fuentes -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction -- A Definition of Modernity -- "Technological Rent" and the "Devaluation" of Nature -- Meanings of Enlightenment -- Images of "Whiteness"-- "American" Modernity -- From Academia to Bohemia and Beyond -- Art and Utopia -- Sartre From a Distance -- Where is "the Left" Now? -- Meditations on the Baroque -- The Mexican '68 and its City -- Mexican Modernity and Anti-modernity.
Summary:
"In this book, leading Latin American thinker Bolívar Echeverría analyses modern capitalism via the idea of "whiteness" - the way that capitalism totally subsumes traditional identities. But there are alternatives. Echeverría explores the baroque, an element of Latin American identity capable of resisting the homogenizing force of capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.
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