The Mexican Exception

The Mexican Exception
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9780230119031
ISBN-13 : 0230119034
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Mexican Exception by : G. Williams

Download or read book The Mexican Exception written by G. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the question of democracy in post-revolutionary Mexican society. Each chapter recuperates an event or particular historical sequence that sheds light on the relation between culture and sovereign exceptionality. Each moment or sequence stages a relation to language. In these speech scenes there is a disagreement between social actors (for example, disputes between peasants and intellectuals over words such as democracy, equality, freedom, proletariat, worker, revolution etc.). Democracy in this book is not just a type of Constitution or a form of society that politics affirms on a daily basis. It is the assumption and installation of egalitarian language. Democracy is therefore the momentary interruption or suspension of the police order.


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