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Academic Rebels in Chile

The Role of Philosophy in Higher Education and Politics

By: Ivan Jaksic,Iván Jaksi?

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Academic Rebels in Chile

The Role of Philosophy in Higher Education and Politics

By: Ivan Jaksic,Iván Jaksi?

Many philosophers have been appointed to top-level political positions during Chiles modern history. What makes Chilean philosophers unique in the context of Latin America and beyond, is that they have developed a sophisticated rationale for both their participation and withdrawal from politics. All along, philosophers have grappled with fundamental problems such as the role of religion and politics in society. They have also played a fundamental role in defining the nature and aims of higher education. The philosophers production constitutes a substantial, albeit largely unknown, portion of the intellectual history of Chile and Latin America.

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SUNY Press

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0887068790

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9780887068799

What is la Hispanidad?

A Conversation

By: Ilan Stavans,Ivan Jaksic

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What is la Hispanidad?

A Conversation

By: Ilan Stavans,Ivan Jaksic

Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their kinsfolk who've immigrated to the United States and around the world, share a common quality or identity characterized as la hispanidad. Or do they? In this lively, provocative book, two distinguished intellectuals, a cultural critic and a historian, engage in a series of probing conversations in which they try to discern the nature of la hispanidad and debate whether any such shared identity binds the world's nearly half billion people who are "Hispanic." Their conversations range from La Reconquista and Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, who united the Spanish nation while expelling its remaining Moors and Jews, to the fervor for el fútbol (soccer) that has swept much of Latin America today. Along the way, they discuss a series of intriguing topics, including the complicated relationship between Latin America and the United States, Spanish language and the uses of Spanglish, complexities of race and ethnicity, nineteenth-century struggles for nationhood and twentieth-century identity politics, and popular culture from literary novels to telenovelas. Woven throughout are the authors' own enlightening experiences of crossing borders and cultures in Mexico and Chile and the United States. Sure to provoke animated conversations among its readers, What is la hispanidad? makes a convincing case that "our hispanidad is rooted in a changing tradition, flexible enough to persist beyond boundaries and circumstances. Let us not fix it with a definition, but allow it instead to travel, always.

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University of Texas Press

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0292719388

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9780292719385

Andrés Bello

Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

By: Ivan Jaksic

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Andrés Bello

Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

By: Ivan Jaksic

This is the first book-length biography of Andrés Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, to appear in English. Bello was also a poet, a literary critic, and an influential statesman whose contributions to nation-building and Spanish American identity are widely recognized across the region. This work provides a comprehensive interpretation of Bello's work, gives an account of Bello's life based on new information from archives in four countries, and sheds new light on this critical period in Latin American history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521027594

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9780521027595

Specialised Tourism Products

Development, Management and Practice

By: Neven Šerić,Ivana Kursan Milaković,Ivan Peronja

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Specialised Tourism Products

Development, Management and Practice

By: Neven Šerić,Ivana Kursan Milaković,Ivan Peronja

Specialised Tourism Products models a systematic approach to tourism development, accentuating the growing significance of specialised tourism content in the wake of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1835494080

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History Derailed

Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century

By: Ivan T. Berend

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History Derailed

Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century

By: Ivan T. Berend

Historian Iván Berend turns his attention to Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th century, a turbulent period. Extending up to World War I, the period contained the seeds of developments and crises that continue to haunt the region today.

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Univ of California Press

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0520245253

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9780520245259

Existence and Regularity Properties of the Integrated Density of States of Random Schrödinger Operators

By: Ivan Veselic

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Existence and Regularity Properties of the Integrated Density of States of Random Schrödinger Operators

By: Ivan Veselic

This book describes in detail a quantity encoding spectral feature of random operators: the integrated density of states or spectral distribution function. It presents various approaches to the construction of the integrated density of states and the proof of its regularity properties. The book also includes references to and a discussion of other properties of the IDS as well as a variety of models beyond those treated in detail here.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540726896

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The Tito–Stalin Split and Yugoslavia's Military Opening toward the West, 1950–1954

In NATO's Backyard

By: Ivan Lakovic,Dmitar Tasic

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The Tito–Stalin Split and Yugoslavia's Military Opening toward the West, 1950–1954

In NATO's Backyard

By: Ivan Lakovic,Dmitar Tasic

Yugoslav military cooperation with West emerged after the country’s split with the U.S.S.R. and its allies in 1948. It came as a surprise for many, since Yugoslavia used to be one of the staunchest followers of Soviet politics. However, faced with possible military escalation of the ideological, political, and economic worsening of relations with the East, the Yugoslav leadership quickly turned to their former “class enemies.” For the United States, it presented an opportunity to acquire many unexpected political benefits. Yugoslav alienation from the Kremlin provided territorial consolidation of the southern flank of NATO, denial of direct approach to the Adriatic Sea and Northern Italy to Soviet troops, and dealt a strong political blow to the homogeneity of the Eastern bloc. While not insisting on changing the ideological nature of Yugoslav state, the United States provided much needed material and financial aid, developing the base for entering into sphere of military cooperation. It had two main categories—direct support for Yugoslav forces through shipments of military equipment, as well as Yugoslavia entering into defensive, military alliance (the Balkan Pact) with Greece and Turkey, already full members of NATO. Such trends, aiming towards closer Yugoslav bonding with Western military and political structures, ended in the mid-1950s with Stalin’s death, the outbreak of the Trieste crisis, and Tito’s reconciliation with Soviet leadership. Developing the new policy of non-alignment with either of the confronting blocs, Yugoslavia stepped out from the program of Western military aid, while the Balkan Pact slowly faded in growing animosity between Greece and Turkey.

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Lexington Books

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1498539343

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Selected Writings of Andrés Bello

By: Andrés Bello

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Selected Writings of Andrés Bello

By: Andrés Bello

Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. He held several key government positions, authored Chile's civil code, launched several periodicals, wrote prodigiously on a vast array of subjects, and implemented important educational reforms. Available here in English for the first time, the Selected Writings of Andrés Bello, edited by Iván Jaksic, gathers wide-ranging selections that explore such subjects as grammar and philology, constitutional reform, the aims of education, international relations, historiography, Latin and Roman Law, government and society, and many others. The Selected Writings of Andrés Bello gives us a generous sampling of a gifted thinker who must be included in any understanding of the origins and development of Latin America.

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Oxford University Press

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0199938938

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9780199938933

Andrés Bello

Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

By: Ivan Jaksic

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Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

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Cambridge University Press

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Academic Rebels in Chile

The Role of Philosophy in Higher Education and Politics

By: Ivan Jaksic

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The Role of Philosophy in Higher Education and Politics

By: Ivan Jaksic

Many philosophers have been appointed to top-level political positions during Chile's modern history. What makes Chilean philosophers unique in the context of Latin America and beyond, is that they have developed a sophisticated rationale for both their participation and withdrawal from politics. All along, philosophers have grappled with fundamental problems such as the role of religion and politics in society. They have also played a fundamental role in defining the nature and aims of higher education. The philosophers' production constitutes a substantial, albeit largely unknown, portion of the intellectual history of Chile and Latin America. This book describes in detail the evolution of philosophical work in Chile, and pays close attention to the relationship between philosophical activity and contemporary social and political events. Various Chilean philosophical sources are discussed for the first time in the literature on Chilean ideas. The work of such intellectuals as Andres Bello, Valentin Letelier, Enrique Molina, Jorge Millas, Juan Rivano, Juan de Dios Vial Larrain, and many others is examined in relation to the principal political and educational issues of their time. The book also develops a distinction between the two main currents of Chilean philosophy, namely, a "professionalist" current that seeks the independence of the field from social and political involvements, and a "critical" current that seeks to relate philosophical activity to national realities.

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State University of New York Press

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1438407750

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9781438407753

Specialised Tourism Products

Development, Management and Practice

By: Neven Šerić,Ivana Kursan Milaković,Ivan Peronja

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Development, Management and Practice

By: Neven Šerić,Ivana Kursan Milaković,Ivan Peronja

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Academic Rebels in Chile

Academic Rebels in Chile

What is la Hispanidad?

What is la Hispanidad?

Andrés Bello

Andrés Bello

Specialised Tourism Products

Specialised Tourism Products

History Derailed

History Derailed

Existence and Regularity Properties of the Integrated Density of States of Random Schrödinger Operators

Existence and Regularity Properties of the Integrated Density of States of Random Schrödinger Operators

The Tito–Stalin Split and Yugoslavia's Military Opening toward the West, 1950–1954

The Tito–Stalin Split and Yugoslavia's Military Opening toward the West, 1950–1954

Selected Writings of Andrés Bello

Selected Writings of Andrés Bello

Andrés Bello

Andrés Bello

Academic Rebels in Chile

Academic Rebels in Chile

Specialised Tourism Products

Specialised Tourism Products

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