Shipwreck and Deliverance Politics, Culture and Modernity in the works of Octavio Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vegas Llosa

by Lutes, Todd Oakley

• ISBN13: 9780761824794
• ISBN10: 0761824790
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-15
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Shipwreck and Deliverance contrasts common European and American understandings of the philosophical, cultural and political problems of modernity with fresh perspectives written into the novels and essays of three major Latin American authors (Octavio Paz, Gabriel Garc'a Marquez and Mario Vegas Llosa).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: The Modern Mind	1	(4)
Conceptualizing Modernity	5	(21)
Four Characteristic Transformations	6	(9)
Weber's Conception of ``Rational Action''	15	(11)
The Problems of Modernity	26	(13)
The Philosophical Problem of Modernity	27	(5)
The Cultural Problem of Modernity	32	(4)
The Political Problem of Modernity	36	(3)
Modernity in the Context of Human Struggle	39	(18)
Jose Ortega y Gasset	40	(5)
Competing Responses to the Crisis of Modernity	45	(7)
Ortega's Influence on Spanish Literature	52	(5)
The Life and Literature of Underdevelopment	57	(13)
Living with Underdevelopment	59	(5)
The Literature of Underdevelopment	64	(6)
Time and Reality	70	(25)
Time	71	(14)
Reality	85	(6)
Life as the Present Moment	91	(4)
Solitude and Love	95	(34)
Solitude	96	(22)
Love	118	(7)
Love as Lifestyle	125	(4)
Power, Politics, and Recovery	129	(27)
Power	131	(10)
Politics	141	(11)
Criticism and Dignity in Life	152	(4)
Bibliography of Works Cited	156	(10)
Index	166