Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality - Brossura

Mariategui, Jose Carlos

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ISBN 10: 029277611X ISBN 13: 9780292776111

Casa editrice: Univ of Texas Pr, 1971

Riassunto

Jose Carlos Mariátegui was one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century. He identified the future of Peru with the welfare of the Indian at a time when similar ideas were beginning to develop in Middle America and the Andean region. Generations of Peruvian and other Latin American social thinkers have been profoundly influenced by his writings.

Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana), first published in 1928, is Mariátegui's major statement of his position and has gone into many editions, not only in Peru but also in other Latin American countries. The topics discussed in the essays—economic evolution, the problem of the Indian, the land problem, public education, the religious factor, regionalism and centralism, and the literary process—are in many respects as relevant today as when the book was written.

Mariátegui's thinking was strongly tinged with Marxism. Because contemporary sociology, anthropology, and economics have been influenced by Marxism much more in Latin America than in North America, it is important that North Americans become more aware of Mariátegui's position and accord it its proper historical significance.

Jorge Basadre, the distinguished Peruvian historian, in an introduction written especially for this translation, provides an account of Mariátegui's life and describes the political and intellectual climate in which these essays were written.

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Book by Maritegui Jos Carlos

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Texas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1971
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 029277611X
• ISBN 13: 9780292776111
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 338
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