Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 404 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

1. This book includes a series of essays about Spanish and Latin American culture, from the perspectives of literary criticism, philosophy, and cultural history. Through these collected essays, the author describes the Spanish moral and political decline from the 15th century to the present day, and brings together central moments of the intellectual and societal resistance against the process of colonization and decadence.

Series statement

1. Ensayo

Uniform title

1. Ensayo (Montesinos (Firm))

Subject

1. Exiles
2. Spain
3. Latin America
4. Politischer Wandel
5. Philosophie
6. Sozialer Wandel
7. Exiles > Spain > History
8. Spain > History > Philosophy
9. Latin America > History > Philosophy
10. Philosophy
11. Spanien
12. Hispanoamerika
13. Collective memory > Spain
14. Gesellschaft
15. Erinnerung
16. History
17. Literatur

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Revisiones la memoria -- Los nombres de América -- La palabra verdadera, el reino del silencio -- El mundo, todo y uno -- El proceso colonizador -- La nación dividida -- El imposible esclarecimiento hispánico -- La conciencia exiliada -- Quijotismo versus modernidad -- Tradición y decadencia -- Yo agónico -- Las elites y las masas -- Cuarteto español -- De la transición al espectáculo -- El rapto de la memoria -- Las poéticas colonizadas de América Latina -- Un manifiesto : siete tesis contra el hispanismo.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Collected essays, previously published in various books and journals.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.