No Apocalypse, No Integration: Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America

Author:   Martin Hopenhayn ,  Cynthia M. Tompkins ,  Elizabeth Rosa Horan
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   184
Publication Date:   08 January 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Martin Hopenhayn ,  Cynthia M. Tompkins ,  Elizabeth Rosa Horan
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780822327608


ISBN 10:   0822327600
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   08 January 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface to the Spanish Edition Preface to the English Edition 1. The Day after the Death of a Revolution 2. Disenchanted and Triumphant toward the 21st Century: A Prospect of Cultural Moods in South America 3. Neither Apocalyptic nor Integrated (Eight Debatable Paradoxes) 4. Realism and Revolt, Twenty Years Later (Paris 1968–Santiago de Chile 1988) 5. What is Left Positive from Negative Thought? A Latin American Perspective 6. Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Latin America 7. The Crisis of Legitimacy of the Planning State 8. Is the Social Thinkable without Metanarratives? 9. Utopia against Crisis, or How to Awake from a Long Insomnia Index

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This extremely thought provoking book on the current crisis of Latin American social science and the ongoing changes in Latin American state formations is highly readable, well written, well informed, and well argued. - Alberto Moreiras, Duke University No Apocalypse, No Integration is the most sustained examination to date of the consequences of post-modernity for Latin American social theory and public policy. - John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh


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Martín Hopenhayn is Social Development Researcher for the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. While he is the author of numerous books in Spanish, this is the first English language collection of his writing. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins is Associate Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University. Elizabeth Rosa Horan is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University.

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