Echeverria, Bolivar
Modernity and :
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509533619
- author:
- Echeverria, Bolivar
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 16.6 x 1.9 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Politics, History & Theory,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Bolívar Echeverría's work offers a distinctive account of capitalism and modernity, drawing on his experiences as a philosopher and critical theorist in Latin America. He argues that capitalism is not the same as modernity, but rather one form of modernity has been realized.
For Echeverría, modernity involves new relations between human beings and nature, and between individuals and collectives. In contrast, capitalism is a mode of reproduction where social life becomes increasingly commodified. He introduces the concept of "whiteness" to describe the new form of identity brought about by capitalism's homogenizing forces.
Echeverría also explores alternative modernities, including the baroque as a characteristic of Latin American identity. This perspective offers a way of theatricalizing and transforming reality that resists the dominant Eurocentric paradigms and the homogenizing effects of capitalism.
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