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1 online resource |
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Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 78 |
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Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 78.
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Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I Utopia and the Dialectic as Contested Terrain; II The Present Moment; III Origins-Dunayevskaya and the Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy; IV Structure of the Present Study; PART 1: Philosophic Foundations; 1: The Meaning of Utopia in Latin America; I "The Right to One's (Latin America's) Own Utopia"; II "Utopia as Space (Place) of Social Resistance"; III Utopia and Latin American Thinkers |
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2: Dialectical Thought-from Hegel to Marx, from Lenin to Dunayevskaya. What is the Power of Negativity for Our Day?I Moments in the Hegelian Dialectic; II Marx-Hegel-from "Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic" to Capital; III Lenin-Hegel-Philosophical Preparation for Revolution?; IV Dunayevskaya-Hegel-Reading Absolute Negativity "As New Beginning"; 3: Are There Emancipatory Threads between Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin America?; I Preliminary Note: The Dialectic of Universal-Particular-Individual Reaching toward Utopias-Projects-Masses |
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II The Challenge in Practice and in Theory: Will Latin America Arrive Only on the Threshold of a New Society, or Enter into the Realm of Absolute Liberation?III How Do a Latin American Concept of Utopia and the Dialectic of Absolute Negativity Speak to Each Other?; PART 2: The State and Social Movements in Latin America; 4: Haiti, 1986-1993: The Uprooting (Dejoucki), the Flood (Lavalas) and the Repression; I Haiti was the First: A Brief Note on the Significance of the Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804; II Haiti in Books and in Life |
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III Theology of Liberation in Concrete Practice: Aristide's Sermons and ActionsIV Epilogue: Post-the Jan. 12, 2012 Earthquake; 5: The Revolutionary Process in Venezuela-Advances, Contradictions, Questions; I The Passing of Hugo Chavez; II Preliminary Moments: The Oil Addiction; The First Period of the Chavez Government; III Under the Whip of the Counter-Revolution a Revolutionary Process Begins |
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IV Chavez's Call to Build "21st Century Socialism"-What is Its Meaning? How Can It Move "Beyond Capital"? Who are the Social Subjects of Revolutionary Change? What is the Role of the State? The Unions? The Party?V The Venezuelan Debate on 21st Century Socialism: Relation of Party and Mass Movement; What Kind of Party? What Kind of Leadership? The Role of the Intellectual: Excerpts from Forum on "Intellectuals, Socialism and Democracy"; VI Is There a Missing Ingredient in Venezuela Today? |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Utopias -- Latin America
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Dialectic.
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Social movements -- Latin America
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dialectic.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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Dialectic
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Social movements
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Utopias
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Latin America
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9004297162 |
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9789004297166 |
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