Irene Silverblatt Books
Moon, sun, and witches
"The myths and cosmologies of non-Western peoples are not just histories, relating the world as it once was, nor are they pseudo-histories, justifying the world as it has come to be. Instead, they...
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Moon, sun, and witches
"The myths and cosmologies of non-Western peoples are not just histories, relating the world as it once was, nor are they pseudo-histories, justifying the world as it has come to be. Instead, they...
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Modern Inquisitions
Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of...
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Against War: Views From The Underside Of Modernity
By Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Walter Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he...
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Avant-Garde, Internationalism, And Politics: Argentine Art In The Sixties
By Andrea Giunta, Walter Mignolo, Peter Kahn, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above...
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