What does it mean to be modern for a Latin American living in the XXI century?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2017.2.27894Keywords:
Modern. Technology. Culture. Coloniality.Abstract
What does it mean to be modern for a Latin American living in the 21st century? The rumination on this question will be the main objective of this essay. Although, as it evolves, other questions will appear to enrich its argumentation: what is usually understood by being modern nowadays? What has being modern meant in history? How Latin American sociological theory has comprehended the concept of being modern? Which are the links between modern, development and progress? The thesis I would like to defend is that technology is the main force that determines what is and what is not modern, or, as the dictionary defines it, what is and what is not part “of our times”. In spite of this, a modern Latin American of the 21st century is one who tries to be part of his time and simultaneously asks himself about its own identity: what do we want to be?
Downloads
References
AROCENA, Felipe. La modernidad y su desencanto: modernos, posmodernos y neoconservadores. Montevideo: Vintén Editor, 1991.
AROCENA, Felipe; DE LEÓN, Eduardo; MERQUIOR, José Guilherme. El complejo de Próspero: ensayos sobre cultura, modernidad y modernización en América Latina. Montevideo: Vintén Editor, 1993.
AROCENA, Felipe; BOWMAN, Kirk. Lessons from Latin America: innovations in politics, culture, and development. Canadá: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
BAUMAN, Zygmunt. La cultura en el mundo de la modernidad líquida. México: FCE, 2013.
BERMAN, Marshall. Tudo que é sólido desmancha no ar. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1989.
BOSTROM, Nick. Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
CARDOSO, Fernando Henrique; FALETTO, Enzo. Dependencia y desarrollo en América Latina. México: Siglo XXI, 1969.
CASSIRER, Ernst. Filosofía de la Ilustración. México: FCE, 1950.
CASTELLS, Manuel. La era de la información: el poder de la identidad. v. 2. México: Siglo XXI Editores, 2001.
FANON, Frantz. Los condenados de la tierra. México: FCE, 1982 [1963].
GERMANI, Gino. Sociología de la modernización: estudios teóricos, metodológicos y aplicados a América Latina. Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1969.
GRAY, John. Al Qaeda y lo que significa ser moderno. Barcelona: Edhasa, 2004.
HABERMAS, Jürgen. La modernidad, un proyecto incompleto. In: Foster Hal (Ed.). La posmodernidad. México: Editorial Kairós, 1988. p. 19-36.
INKELES, Alex; SMITH, David H. Becoming modern: individual change in six developing countries. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974 <10.4159/harvard.9780674499348>.
ISHIGURO, Kazuo. Nunca me abandones. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2005.
KÜNG, Hans. Teología para la posmodernidad. Madrid: Alianza, 1989.
LATOUR, Bruno. Nunca fuimos modernos. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2007.
MONSIVÁIS, Carlos. ¿Tantos millones de hombres no hablaremos inglés? (La cultura norteamericana y México). In: Guillermo Bonfil (Org.). Simbiosis de culturas: los inmigrantes y su cultura en México. México: FCE, 1993. p. 455-516.
MORSE, Richard. El espejo de Próspero. México: Siglo XXI Editores, 1982.
NISBET, Robert. La formación del pensamiento sociológico. Buenos Aires: Amorrortu Editores, 1977.
PARSONS, Talcott. The social system. Glencoe: Free Press, 1971.
PAZ, Octavio. Los signos en rotación y otros ensayos. Madrid: Alianza, 1986.
PEET, Richard. Theories of development. New York: The Guilford Press, 1999.
QUIJANO, Aníbal. Colonialidad del poder, eurocentrimso y América Latina. In: Edgardo Lander (Org.). La colonialidad del saber: eurocentrismo y ciencias sociales. Buenos Aires: Clacso, 2000.
RIVERA, Raúl. Nuestra hora: los latinoamericanos en el siglo XXI. Chile: Pearson Educación de Chile, 2010.
WAGNER, Richard. The invention of culture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1981.
ZEA, Leopoldo. Discurso desde la marginación y la barbarie. México: FCE, 1992.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2017 Civitas – Journal of Social Sciences
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The submission of originals to this journal implies the transfer by the authors of the right for printed and digital publication. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. If the authors wish to include the same data into another publication, they must cite this journal as the site of original publication. As the journal is of open access, the articles are allowed for free use in scientific and educational applications, with citation of the source (please see the Creative Commons License at the bottom of this page).
