Full Description
This volume explores the life, work, and impact of the Peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), particularly his political biography, his intellectual production, and his critique of Eurocentrism.
This posthumous fame is based on the idea that, in the whole of his political-theoretical project, the relationship between Latin America and Marxism was not built using a mechanical linking of effects and causes, of the blatant copy of the theory produced in Europe, of the immediate application of positivist formulas. In this complex relationship, enigmatic and insinuating, a dissonant historical temporality emerged in Latin America. The apparently unbalanced temporalities marked the matrix of capitalist exploitation, but also present, in Mariátegui's view, glimmers of future possibilities.
This book is essential reading for scholars of social sciences and history interested in understanding the historical roots and political dilemmas of Latin American and European societies from the unique perspective of one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.
Contents
Introduction: Mariátegui: Contemporary Classic of the Critique of Eurocentrism Part 1: Sociocultural Expansion in Peru and the Formation of the Young Mariátegui 1. Mesocracy and Conditioners of Sociocultural Activities in Peru 2. "Nineteenth-Century Mandarins" and "Committed Centennialists" 3. Literary Bohemians of 1910 and Rebellion in Juan Croniqueur 4. Transition to "Big Politics" and Socialist Orientation Part 2: Europe as Rediscovery of the World Itself: Global Thought and the International Struggle 5. Europe in a Trance: International Circulation and Cosmopolitan Utopias 6. Crisis of Western Civilization, Crisis of Capitalism and Crisis of Progress 7. Marxism and Contemporary Thought: Unrepentant Dialogues Part 3: Criticism of Political and Epistemological Eurocentism: Translation of Marxism as a Peripheral Social Theory 8. Restless Preparations: Ideological Battle and Cultural Organization 9. Decipher Me or I Will Devour You: Translation of Marxism and the Peruvian Enigma 10. "You are Full of Europeanism": The Socialist Revolution Against APRA 11. "Populist Nationalist"? The Communist International Against Indo-American Socialism. Conclusion: Mariátegui's Secret: Marxism and the Criticism of Eurocentrism
