Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 406
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Trim: 7 x 10
978-0-7425-3992-1 • Paperback • February 2008 • $67.00 • (£52.00)
978-0-7425-7510-3 • eBook • February 2008 • $63.50 • (£49.00)
Iván Márquez is associate professor of philosophy at Bentley College.
Part I: Narratives of Resistance and Liberation
Chapter 1: Massacre in Mexico
Chapter 2: I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Chapter 3: Let Me Speak!: Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines
Chapter 4: Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos
Part II: Liberation Theology, Philosophy, and Pedagogy
Chapter 5: Toward a Theology of Liberation
Chapter 6: Church: Charisma and Power: Liberation Theology and the Institutional Church
Chapter 7: The Gospel in Solentiname
Chapter 8: Philosophy of Liberation
Chapter 9: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Part III: Dependency Theory: The Political Economy of Latin America
Chapter 10: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage of a Continent
Chapter 11: Change and Development-Latin America's Great Task: Report Submitted to the Inter-American Development Bank
Chapter 12: Dependency and Development in Latin America
Chapter 13: The Structure of Dependence
Chapter 14: Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot
Part IV: Guerrilla Revolution and Socialist Utopia
Chapter 15: Socialism and Man in Cuba
Chapter 16: Problems and Principles of Strategy
Chapter 17: Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona
Part V: From Socialist Revolution to Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Globalization: Post–Cold War Social and Political Thought
Chapter 18: Cultures of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Re-Visioning Latin American Social Movements
Chapter 19: Utopia Unarmed: the Latin American Left After the Cold War
Chapter 20: The Market Turn Without Neoliberalism
Chapter 21: The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
Iván Márquez has gathered in this book a wide range of excerpts from diverse Latin American contributions to social and political thought. He offers to the English-speaking audience of teachers and students a valuable sourcebook of key works by Latin American intellectuals, politicians, and activists.
— Hispanic American Historical Review
Latin America's process of political maturation has left an amazing, rich, and venerable inheritance of political thinking. Iván Márquez has gathered in this wonderful anthology some of the most distinctive and original Latin American political and social thinking. This book is an indispensable resource for teachers and students alike.
— Eduardo Mendieta, Pennsylvania State University
Márquez's book fills a significant gap in the growing literature on social and political thought in Latin America. Instead of retraveling the usual paths of traditional neoliberalism and orthodox Marxism, he has compiled an impressive group of texts from voices seldom heard, and if heard, frequently forgotten. This is an indispensable source for the college curriculum.
— Jorge J. E. Gracia, SUNY Buffalo
This anthology is a fine sourcebook for crucial political instances within the continent. I highly recommend it for Spanish majors.
— Luis P. Ramos-Garcia, University of Minnesota
Represents a broad selection of readings covering the spectrum of topics in Latin American social and political thought since 1965
Collects the writings of philosophers, humanities scholars, and social scientists working inside and outside of academia, as well as those of journalists, theologians, grassroots organizers, revolutionaries, and politicians
Highlights the depth and originality of these thinkers by offering a compendium of full selections rather than short excerpts
Includes a key selection of hard-to-find classic readings
All selections are officially authorized English translations of the original Spanish and Portuguese texts