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Harbinger of modernity : Marcos Aguinis and the democratization of Argentina / by Dalia Wassner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wassner, Dalia.
- Series:
- Jewish Latin America 3.
- Jewish Latin America ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectuals--Argentina--History--20th century.
- Intellectuals.
- Jews--Argentina--Intellectual life.
- Jews.
- Politics in literature.
- Argentina--Politics and government--1983-2002.
- Argentina.
- Aguinis, Marcos--Criticism and interpretation.
- Aguinis, Marcos.
- Aguinis, Marcos--Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina , Dalia Wassner presents an integrated analysis of the civic work and literary oeuvre of Marcos Aguinis, who served as Secretary of Culture during Argentina’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Situating his writings in their historical and intellectual context, Wassner explores Aguinis’s engagement with the dialectic of modernization as a Jewish public intellectual equally dedicated to fostering Argentine democracy and to inscribing himself in the annals of westernization. Encompassing intellectual history, literary criticism, Latin American history, and Jewish studies, Wassner’s work illuminates the intersecting roles of Jews and public intellectuals in bringing democracy to post-dictatorship Argentina.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Historical and Literary Context of the Argentine Public Intellectual
- Chapter 2 Aguinis and Alfonsin: Public Intellectuals and the Argentine Government
- Chapter 3 Aguinis and the Essay: The Argentine Erasmus?
- Chapter 4 Dialogue: Leading by Example
- Chapter 5 Jews and the Novel: Aguinis’s Means to an End
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Literary Works by Marcos Aguinis
- Appendix 2 Newspaper Articles by Marcos Aguinis
- Appendix 3 Scholarship on Marcos Aguinis
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 27, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 90-04-26132-X
- OCLC:
- 862611143
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004261327 DOI
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