The Other West
On the Historical Position of Latin America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2355010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José Guilherme Merquior (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-163 |
| Publication date | 1991-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-5809 • E-ISSN: 1461-7242 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/026858091006002002 |
| OpenAlex | W1995951293 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
Throughout the 1980s, the 'lost decade' for Latin America, the tide of democratisation and of tentative economic liberalisation seems to have coincided with the discredit of neo-Marxist theories, most notably the so-called dependency school. In their stead, cultural interpretations have been rekindled and renewed, in the very throes of the region's economic predicament. Richard Morse's Prospero's Mirror is a brilliant instance of this, with its influential stress on an organicist-patrimonialist substratum allegedly intrinsic to the Iberian collective consciousness besides representing, to a certain extent, a positive challenge to the values of late industrial modernity. Conceived as a short exercise in historical sociology, this paper takes issue with both the descriptive and the normative levels of the Morse thesis. While trying to qualify the 'identity' issue in the subcontinent, the author claims that the best way to deeper development and social redemption in Latin America does not lie in any principled resistance to capitalism and modernity; rather, it promises to require integration policies inside as well as outside the area - able to produce actual breakthroughs towards a fuller market economy and a badly needed reform of the state
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Black into White
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Prophecy and Myth in Mexican History
El orden conservador
The Founding of New Societies
The Iron Cage
Rousseau and Weber
Liberalism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |