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Title
Postcolonial Reconstruction : A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz.
ISBN
331944302X (electronic book)
9783319443027
3319443011
9783319443010
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : Springer Science and Business Media : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers
9783319443010
Call Number
HN110.5.A8
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.098
Summary
This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of the social sciences. The book identifies opportunities for relating Paz sociological ideas to contemporary debates, arguing that Paz sociology is linked very closely to his assessment of what could be called the post-colonial condition that Mexico has been experiencing. The book thus advances the understanding of the differences between post-colonial experiences in Latin America and those of other areas of the world. In addition to revealing Paz sociology, the book focuses on Modernity and examines Paz critique of Modernity and his project of Modernity . It shows that a close examination of the works of Octavio Paz helps redefine Modernity from a Latin American perspective as an experience in which the global and local are intertwined, and helps to point in the direction of a new kind of humanism."
Note
This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of the social sciences. The book identifies opportunities for relating Paz sociological ideas to contemporary debates, arguing that Paz sociology is linked very closely to his assessment of what could be called the post-colonial condition that Mexico has been experiencing. The book thus advances the understanding of the differences between post-colonial experiences in Latin America and those of other areas of the world. In addition to revealing Paz sociology, the book focuses on Modernity and examines Paz critique of Modernity and his project of Modernity . It shows that a close examination of the works of Octavio Paz helps redefine Modernity from a Latin American perspective as an experience in which the global and local are intertwined, and helps to point in the direction of a new kind of humanism."
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Series
SpringerBriefs in sociology.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319443010
Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Postcolonial Deconstruction; Postcolonialism Reconstruction; Why Octavio Paz?; This Book; 1 Two Sociological Traditions in Latin America; Abstract; 1.1 Deprovincializing Social Theory; 1.2 The Limits of "Academic Sociology" in Mexico, and Why They Must Be Transcended; 1.3 The Geographic-Epistemic Shift in Gino Germani's Theory of Modernization; 1.4 Dependency Theory: An Incomplete Critique of Modernization Theory; 1.5 Positivism as Ideology; 1.6 Towards a New Culture Under the Sign of Humanism
2 Octavio Paz: A Critique of Sociology or a Critical Sociology?Abstract; 2.1 An Approach to the Sociology of Octavio Paz; 2.2 The Mexican Revolution and the Experience of a Postcolonial Modernity; 2.3 A Humanist-Sociological Critique of Sociology; 2.4 The Collège de Sociologie and the Heterological Sociology of the Sacred; 3 From Poetic Experience to Poetic Sociology; Abstract; 3.1 The Epistemological Dimension of Poetic Experience; 3.2 The Poetic Experience as Experience of Otherness and Its Normative Consequences; 3.3 The Poetic Sociology of Global Modernity; References
