Octavio Paz y la modernidad: una crítica vanguardista desde los suburbios de la civilización = Octavio Paz and modernity: an avant-gardist criticism from the suburbs of civilization

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, fin...

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Main Author: Ledesma, Xavier Rodríguez
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS) 2012-01-01
Series:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais
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Online Access:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/civitas/article/view/11153/7655
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Summary: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
ISSN:1519-6089
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