Octavio Paz : : Humanism and Critique /

Octavio Paz : : Humanism and Critique / / ed. by Oliver Kozlarek.

Octavio Paz is one of the most recognized Latin American writers. His essays offer a sophisticated critique of global modernity. Although his work has advanced many of the arguments that orient our contemporary debates in the social sciences and in philosophy, it has hardly ever been seriously taken...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Capetillo-Ponce, Jorge,
Echeverría, Bolívar,
Fidalgo, Juan Álvarez-Cienfuegos,
Gallo, Rubén,
Grenier, Yvon,
Kozlarek, Oliver,
Ledesma, Xavier Rodríguez,
Moreno, Hugo,
Söllner, Alfons,
Valenzuela, Juliana González,
Vázquez, Rolando,
Weinberg, Liliana,
HerausgeberIn:
Kozlarek, Oliver,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]
©2009
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Der Mensch im Netz der Kulturen - Humanismus in der Epoche der Globalisierung / Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures - Humanism in the Age of Globalization ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Crossing Borders, Reaching Humanity
  • Part I: The Critical Theory of Octavio Paz
  • Theodor W. Adorno and Octavio Paz – A Comparison of their Early Cultural-Philosophical Writings Published after the Second World War
  • Theodor W. Adorno and Octavio Paz: Two Critiques of the Same Modernity
  • Socialism in One Person: Specter of Marx in Octavio Paz’s Political Thought
  • Octavio Paz reads Moses and Monotheism
  • Part II: Paz and the ‘Privileges of Sight
  • Octavio Paz, Mexican Muralist
  • On Visual Modernity and Poetic Critique, between Octavio Paz and Walter Benjamin
  • Duchamp According to Octavio Paz
  • Part III: Octavio Paz and Social Sciences
  • The Sociology of Octavio Paz
  • The Walls of the Labyrinth: Mapping Octavio Paz’s Sociology through Georg Simmel’s Method
  • Luz inteligente: The Anthropological Dimension in Octavio Paz’s First Essays
  • Part IV: Octavio Paz and Philosophy
  • Octavio Paz’s Poetic Reply to Hegel’s Philosophical Legacy
  • To Hear the Inaudible, To See the Imperceptible: Modernity and Otherness in Octavio Paz
  • The Blue Fire of the Double Flame
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Names

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