Octavio Paz and modernity: An avant-gardist criticism from the suburbs of civilization
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Octavio Paz, modernity, Latin AmericaAbstract
Since the fifties of the last century, a Latin American voice began to call attention to the need to think about the meaning of modernity in general and, specifically, how we could give it a new meaning in remote regions, far from the metropolis – and, by doing so and recovering our specificity, find our own ways to reach our own, specific destination. It was the voice of a poet, not of a social scientist or a philosopher. Since few decades, reflection on modernity has become a topic within the academic and cultural world; it is surprising that those deep and avant-gardist digressions are unknown or just denied by the hegemonic centers and discourses of knowledge. The author of this rich, deep, inspiring, avant-gardist and well-written reflection on modernity was the Mexican poet Octavio Paz.Downloads
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2012-05-18
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Ledesma, X. R. (2012). Octavio Paz and modernity: An avant-gardist criticism from the suburbs of civilization. Civitas: Journal of Social Sciences, 12(1), 161–177. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2012.1.11153
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