Utopia and the dialectic in Latin American liberation / by Eugene Gogol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gogol, Eugene, 1942- author.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 78.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 78

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias--Latin America.

Utopias.

Dialectic--Latin America.

Dialectic.

Social movements--Latin America.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation begins by examining the concept of utopia in Latin American thought, particularly its roots within indigenous emancipatory practice, and suggests that within this concept of utopia can be found a resonance with the dialectic of negativity that Hegel developed under the impact of the French Revolution, further developed by such thinker-activists as Marx, Lenin and Raya Dunayevskaya. From this theoretical-philosophical plane, the study moves to the liberation practices of social movements in recent Latin American history. Movements such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, Indigenous feminism throughout the Americas, and Indigenous struggles in Bolivia and Colombia, are among those taken up--most often in the words of the participants. The study concludes by discussing a dialectic of philosophy and organization in the context of Latin American liberation.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Introduction / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

The Meaning of Utopia in Latin America / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Dialectical Thought—from Hegel to Marx, from Lenin to Dunayevskaya. What is the Power of Negativity for Our Day? / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Are There Emancipatory Threads between Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin America? / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Haiti, 1986–1993: The Uprooting (Dejoucki), the Flood (Lavalas) and the Repression / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

The Revolutionary Process in Venezuela—Advances, Contradictions, Questions / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Mexico’s Revolutionary Forms of Organization: The Zapatistas and the Indigenous Autonomous Communities in Resistance / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Bolivia: In Revolutionary Transformation, 2000–2005; The Pull of State-Capitalism, 2006–2013 / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Social Movements in Argentina / Francisco T. Sobrino

Indigenous Struggles for Territory, Autonomy and Natural Resources / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Women as Force and Reason of Social Transformations / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Youth, Popular Education, Teachers / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Horizontal-ism, State-ism, Marxism and the Indigenous Dimension—Raul Zibechi, Álvaro García Linera, Hugo Blanco / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

The Zapatistas and the Dialectic / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Marx, Hegel and Dunayevskaya—Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization in the Context of Latin American Liberation / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Bibliography / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

Index / Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-29716-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004297166 DOI