José Vasconcelos

José Vasconcelos, whose lawyer’s degree entitles him to the designation “Licenciado,” but who more commonly is referred to respectfully as “El Maestro Vasconcelos,” has suffered in recent years a political eclipse which has deprived him of the publicity enjoyed by less distinguished Latin Americans who have kept themselves more attuned to political changes. The writer of this article does not share Vasconcelos’ political or religious creeds, but he cannot help recognizing in him one of the noblest expressions of Latin-American thought. His vast culture and universal philosophy is free from the parochialism which is the curse of much Latin-American culture. This eulogy by one of a different persuasion is intended to counteract the oblivion into which a hostile partisan spirit would relegate him.

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El motivo del fin del mundo en la literatura hispanoamericana

Tropelías Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada ◽

10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201625997 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 183

Author(s):

Bernat Castany Prado

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

American Culture ◽

End Of History ◽

The World ◽

Close Relationship ◽

Latin American Culture ◽

History Of ◽

Latin American Thought ◽

Ontological Sense ◽

American Thought

El motivo del fin del mundo –ya sea bajo la forma de milenarismo, apocalipticismo, escatologismo, mesianismo, progresismo o fin de la historia- ha sido una constante en el pensamiento y la literatura hispanoamericanos desde sus mismos inicios. El propósito de este trabajo es tratar de explicar las razones por las que dicho motivo ha sido tan importante, temática y estructuralmente hablando, en la cultura hispanoamericana. Para ello realizaré una breve historia del concepto de «fin del mundo», que entenderé tanto en un sentido físico y en un sentido temporal como en un sentido ontológico, tratando de mostrar la estrecha relación que la cultura americana ha mantenido, desde un principio, con dicho concepto. The motive of the end of the world -in the form of millenarianism, apocalypticism, eschatologism, messianism, progressivism or end of history- has been a constant in Latin American thought and literature from the very beginning. The purpose of this paper is to explain the reasons why that plea has been so important, thematic and structurally speaking, in the Latin American culture. To do this I will make a brief history of the concept of "doomsday", which understand both in a physical sense and in a temporal sense and in an ontological sense, trying to show the close relationship that American culture has maintained from the outset, with this concept.

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Secularization, Integration and Rationalization: Some Perspectives from Latin American Thought

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x00007501 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 199-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Edward J. Williams

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Developmental Process ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Latin Americans ◽

The Past ◽

New Concepts ◽

The Rich ◽

Latin American Thought ◽

Firing Line ◽

American Thought

For the past couple of decades the Latin Americans, like their brethren in Africa and Asia, have been hell-bent in search of ‘development’ or ‘modernization’. While the Latin Americans were on the firing line, scholars and policy-makers in both the rich nations and the poor nations were involved in setting out an intellectual framework for analyzing the developmental process. New concepts to explain the meaning of development were devised; innovative measurements to gauge the level of development were proposed; a new vocabulary to capture the nuances of development was put forth.

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