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Articles by Bolívar Echeverría
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Homo Legens
in NLR 79, January-February 2013, pp. 123-126
Subjects: History and Historiography , Philosophy
Is the book-reader an endangered species? Bolívar Echeverría traces the emergence of the individual reading subject within the maelstrom of capitalist modernity, linking their fates to argue against Homo legens’s imminent demise.
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Potemkin Republics
in NLR 70, July-August 2011, pp. 53-61
Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean
In his final essay, the late Bolívar Echeverría considers the bicentennial history of Latin America’s oligarchic states. While elites stage empty rituals of affirmation, might the continent’s marginalized majorities be reimagining national identity?
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