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Carlos Pereda's Mexico Unveiled is a fresh, idiosyncratic synthesis of twentieth-century Mexican philosophy that puts contemporary debates about Mexican identity politics into a critical perspective. This edition—translated, edited, and introduced by Noell Birondo—brings the Mexican thinker's ideas to a new English-language audience.
In three engaging essays written in a peerless prose style, Pereda considers the persistent influence of European colonialism on Mexican intellectual life, the politics of inclusion, and the changing ideas of what it means to be Mexican. He identifies three "vices"—social habits, customs, and beliefs inherited from European colonialism—that have influenced the development of Mexican national identity: subaltern fervor, craving for novelty, and nationalist zeal. Pereda demonstrates that these three tendencies have led Mexican intellectuals, and Mexican society more generally, to uncritically adopt a politics of exclusion and destructive nationalist attitudes.
Using a strategy he calls "nomadic" thinking—the act of moving beyond our cultural preconceptions and habits of thinking—Pereda guides readers through a number of examples drawn from Mexican philosophy and culture that illustrate these tendencies. At its core, Mexico Unveiled is an accessible and entertaining introduction to the philosophical themes that have long occupied Pereda's life and work and Mexican philosophy more generally.
Contents
Translator's Acknowledgments
Carlos Pereda's Porous Reason: A Critical Introduction by Noell Birondo
Preface: Indications of the Road Ahead
Chapter One: Colonial Vices: Outlines of a General Perspective
Chapter Two: Fragments of Mexican Philosophy, For Example
Chapter Three: Inconvenient Mexican Thinkers, and Irreverent Claims
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