Content

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Foreword 7
4. Introduction: Crossing Borders, Reaching Humanity 9
5. Part I: The Critical Theory of Octavio Paz
6. Theodor W. Adorno and Octavio Paz – A Comparison of their Early Cultural-Philosophical Writings Published after the Second World War 19
7. Theodor W. Adorno and Octavio Paz: Two Critiques of the Same Modernity 31
8. Socialism in One Person: Specter of Marx in Octavio Paz’s Political Thought 47
9. Octavio Paz reads Moses and Monotheism 65
10. Part II: Paz and the ‘Privileges of Sight
11. Octavio Paz, Mexican Muralist 89
12. On Visual Modernity and Poetic Critique, between Octavio Paz and Walter Benjamin 99
13. Duchamp According to Octavio Paz 111
14. Part III: Octavio Paz and Social Sciences
15. The Sociology of Octavio Paz 137
16. The Walls of the Labyrinth: Mapping Octavio Paz’s Sociology through Georg Simmel’s Method 155
17. Luz inteligente: The Anthropological Dimension in Octavio Paz’s First Essays 179
18. Part IV: Octavio Paz and Philosophy
19. Octavio Paz’s Poetic Reply to Hegel’s Philosophical Legacy 217
20. To Hear the Inaudible, To See the Imperceptible: Modernity and Otherness in Octavio Paz 231
21. The Blue Fire of the Double Flame 249
22. Notes on Contributors 259
23. Index of Names 263