Reinventing Modernity in Latin America

1. Introduction: Against Fate and Ascription
Nicola Miller

2. Mapping Out the Modern: Rodó’s Critique of Pure Reason
Nicola Miller

3. Creating a Workers’ Public Sphere: Juan B. Justo’s Analysis of State and Society
Nicola Miller

4. Translating the Past into the Present: The Synthesizing Modernity of Alfonso Reyes
Nicola Miller

5. A Vital Form of Public Space: Mariátegui’s Revolution in Modernity
Nicola Miller

6. Conclusion: A Distinctively Latin American Modernity
Nicola Miller

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, History of the Americas, Cultural History, Latin American Politics, Social History, Political History