Thinking about the Mexican Revolution: Philosophy, Culture and Politics in Mexico. 1910-1934

Thinking about the Mexican Revolution: Philosophy, Culture and Politics in Mexico. 1910-1934

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The commemoration of the two hundredth apunisw2 anniversary of the War of Independence and thecentenary of the Mexican Revolution make this a good moment for some analysis andreflection on the influence that both events have had on the form and the meaning thatMexican intellectual production and cultural institutions have conserved throughout that time.The aim of this essay, is to examine in how, and by what cultural and institutional means, aprocess of historical click here transformation as violent, convulsive, complex and radical as theRevolution ended up producing a remarkably favourable set of conditions for literature, music,the visual arts, education and, in particular, philosophy, whose earliest developments andcontributions came between 1910 and 1934.