No Apocalypse, No Integration

by Hopenhayn, Martin; Tompkins, Cynthia M.; Horan, Elizabeth Rosa; Fish, Stanley Eugene

• ISBN13: 9780822327608
• ISBN10: 0822327600
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition)What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in a region marked by incomplete modernization, new waves of privatization, great masses of excluded peoples, and profound sociocultural heterogeneity? InNo Apocalypse, No IntegrationMartiacute;n Hopenhayn examines the social and philosophical implications of the triumph of neoliberalism and the collapse of leftist and state-sponsored social planning in Latin America. With the failure of utopian movements that promised social change, the rupture of the link between the production of knowledge and practical intervention, and the defeat of modernization and development policy established after World War II, Latin American intellectuals and militants have been left at an impasse without a vital program of action. Hopenhayn analyzes these crises from a theoretical perspective and calls upon Latin American intellectuals to reevaluate their objects of study, their political reality, and their societyrs"s cultural production, as well as to seek within their own history the elements for a new collective discourse. Challenging the notion that strict adherence to a single paradigm of action can rescue intellectual and cultural movements, Hopenhayn advocates a course of epistemological pluralism, arguing that such an approach values respect for difference and for cultural and theoretical diversity and heterodoxy. This essay collection will appeal to readers of sociology, public policy, philosophy, cultural theory, and Latin American history and culture, as well as to those with an interest in Latin Americars"s current transition.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Spanish Edition	vii
Preface to the English Edition	xi
The Day after the Death of a Revolution	1	(12)
Disenchanted and Triumphant toward the 21st Century: A Prospect of Cultural Moods in South America	13	(23)
Neither Apocalyptic nor Integrated (Eight Debatable Paradoxes)	36	(11)
Realism and Revolt, Twenty Years Later (Paris 1968--Santiago de Chile 1988)	47	(8)
What is Left Positive from Negative Thought? A Latin American Perspective	55	(22)
Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Latin America	77	(17)
The Crisis of Legitimacy of the Planning State	94	(25)
Is the Social Thinkable without Metanarratives?	119	(23)
Utopia against Crisis, or How to Awake from a Long Insomnia	142	(13)
Index	155