Libro redentores de enrique krauze biography

In Redeemers, acclaimed historian Enrique Krauze presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and looks closely at how these ideas were expressed in the lives.

Por este libro también desfilan profetas de la redención como el heroico Martí, el idealista José Enrique Rodó y, como figura central, el poeta y ensayista Paz.

A través de estas doce biografías sutilmente entrelazadas, Enrique Krauze esclarece el dilema central de América Latina, la tensión entre el ideal de la.

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Enrique Krauze, born in Mexico City in 1947, is a historian and essayist. He graduated with a degree in Industrial Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1969 and obtained a Ph.D. in History from El Colegio de México in 1974. From 1977 to 1996 he served as Deputy Editor of Vuelta magazine, edited by Octavio Paz. In 1991 he founded the publishing house Editorial Clío, which produces books and documentaries. Additionally, in 1999, he established the Letras Libres magazine.

As a writer, Enrique Krauze has pursued several genres such as biography, literary and historical essays, and interviews. Some of his publications include Caudillos culturales en la Revolución Mexicana (1976), La reconstrucción económica (1977), Daniel Cosío Villegas / Una biografía intelectual (1980), Por una democracia sin adjetivos (1986), Biografía del poder (1987), Siglo de caudillos (1993), La presidencia imperial (1997), Mexicanos eminentes (1999), Tarea polític

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Redentores: Ideas y poder en América Latina
November 18, 2012

This book really should get 2 1/2 stars in my view - I "round up" to three because I think it is worth reading if you are interested in Latin America, or skimming at least. Just make sure to add your helping of salt to the reading.

Let me start with the positives of this book. It will introduce the North American reader to Latin American historical figures that most will be unaware of. Jose Vasconcelos, for example, author of the Mexican classic La Raza Cosmica, will be first among these. It is essential that a person from the U.S. or Canada understand who Vasconcelos was, if one wishes to understand Mexican history and politics. Likewise, the Peruvian Marxist thinker Jose Mariategui is given lavish attention and praise for his careful analysis of Peruvian inequality and his eloquent defense of indigenous people. Though most people have heard of Jose Marti (or at least heard the song Guantanamera!) relatively few are f
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Redentores: Ideas y poder enstaka latinoamérica
November 18, 2012

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