Overview
- Is the first to systematically discuss the work of one of the leading Latin American intellectuals
- Shows that literature helps to reconstruct sociological thought in Latin America
- Is an important contribution to post-colonial critique
- Provides interesting ideas for a future global sociology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
Keywords
- Deprovincializing Social Theory
- Academic Sociology in Mexico
- Theory of Mdoernization
- Culture of Humanism
- Sociology of Octavio Paz
- Experience of Postcolonial Modernity in Mexico
- Collège de Sociologie and the Heterological Sociology
- Epistemological Dimension of Poetic Experience
- Poetic Sociology of Global Modernity
- Mexico’s National Science and Technology Council
- Postcolonial Deconstruction and Postcolonial Reconstruction
- Geopolitical Distribution of Power
- Sociological Ideas of Octavio Paz
- contemporary Debates on the Sociology of Octavio Paz
- Postcolonial Experiences in Latin America
- Project of Modernity
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Recently edited and authored books include: De la Teoría Crítica a una crítica plural de la modernidad (Biblos: 2007); Entre cosmopolitismo y “conciencia del mundo” (Siglo XXI: 2007); Humanismo en la época de la globalización: Desafíos y horizontes (Biblos: 2009) (with Jörn Rüsen); Octavio Paz: Humanism and Critique (Transcript: 2009); Moderne als Weltbewusstsein. Ideen für eine humanistische Sozialtheorie in der globalen Moderne (Transcript: 2011); Shaping a Humane World. Civilizations, Axial Times, Modernities, Humanisms (Transcript: 2012) (with Jörn Rüsen and Ernst Wolff); Multiple Experiences of Modernity (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz
Authors: Oliver Kozlarek
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44302-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44301-0Published: 01 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44302-7Published: 23 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2212-6368
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6376
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 76