No Apocalypse, No Integration Modernism and Postmodernity in Latin America
| Author/creator | Hopenhayn, Martín Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press |
| Description | 184 p. 23.000 x 015.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Other author/creator | Horan, Elizabeth Rosa Translator |
| Other author/creator | Tompkins, Cynthia Margarita Translator |
| Other author/creator | Fish, Stanley Contribution by |
| Other author/creator | Jameson, Fredric 1934- Contribution by |
| Series | Post-Contemporary Interventions Latin America in Translation en Traduccion em Traducao Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation <div>Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition)<p>What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in a region marked by incomplete modernization, new waves of privatization, great masses of excluded peoples, and profound sociocultural heterogeneity? In<i>No Apocalypse, No Integration</i>Martín Hopenhayn examines the social and philosophical implications of the triumph of neoliberalism and the collapse of leftist and state-sponsored social planning in Latin America.<br />	With the failure of utopian movements that promised social change, the rupture of the link between the production of knowledge and practical intervention, and the defeat of modernization and development policy established after World War II, Latin American intellectuals and militants have been left at an impasse without a vital program of action. Hopenhayn analyzes these crises from a theoretical perspective and calls upon Latin American intellectuals to reevaluate their objects of study, their political reality, and their society’s cultural production, as well as to seek within their own history the elements for a new collective discourse. Challenging the notion that strict adherence to a single paradigm of action can rescue intellectual and cultural movements, Hopenhayn advocates a course of epistemological pluralism, arguing that such an approach values respect for difference and for cultural and theoretical diversity and heterodoxy.<br />	This essay collection will appeal to readers of sociology, public policy, philosophy, cultural theory, and Latin American history and culture, as well as to those with an interest in Latin America’s current transition.</p></div> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2001040630 |
| ISBN | 9780822327608 |
| ISBN | 0822327600 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780822327608 |
| Stock number | 00008251 |
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