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Culture and the Cuban State examines the politics of culture in communist Cuba. It focuses on cultural policy, censorship, and the political participation of artists, writers and academics such as Tania Bruguera, Jesus Diaz, Rafael Hernandez, Kcho, Reynier Leyva Novo, Leonardo Padura, and Jose Toirac. The cultural field is important for the reproduction of the regime in place, given its pretense and ambition to be eternally "revolutionary" and...

This book offers an analysis of Paz's political thought, arguing that it is rooted in two separate and often antagonistic traditions, Liberalism and Romanticism. Grenier shows that Paz's political thought is best approached not so much by looking at the specific positions Paz took in the issues of his day, but rather by uncovering the core values at the heart of Paz's political philosophy. From Art to Politics gives not only a better understan...

Grenier offers a better understanding of the causes of revolution in El Salvador through an analysis of the central role of ideas and ideologues. The insurgency was not merely the charismatic embodiment of structurally determined processes, as it is commonly suggested, it was the expression of a distinct and forceful political will. The focus is placed on the period of emergence of insurgency (roughly, the 1970s and early 1980s), a period too ...

Este libro analiza el pensamiento poltico de Octavio Paz y busca sus races en dos tradiciones a veces antagnicas: el liberalismo y el romanticismo. Busca en el ncleo de su filosofa poltica ms que en la toma de posiciones que Paz hizo respecto a diversos asuntos de su poca, para tratar de comprender su ideario. Enfoque novedoso de temas como los vnculos entre arte y poltica y el papel del intelectual en el escenario contemporneo.

This work analyzes Paz's political thought, arguing that it is rooted in two separate and often antagonistic traditions, Liberalism and Romanticism. This work also provides a discussion of the political culture and democratization of Mexico.