{"product_id":"mexico-unveiled-resisting-colonial-vices-and-other-complaints-9780826507990","title":"Mexico Unveiled: Resisting Colonial Vices and Other Complaints","description":"Carlos Pereda's \u003ci\u003eMexico Unveiled\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh, idiosyncratic synthesis of twentieth-century Mexican philosophy that puts contemporary debates about Mexican identity politics into a critical perspective. This edition--translated, edited, and introduced by Noell Birondo--brings the Mexican thinker's ideas to a new English-language audience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In three engaging essays written in a peerless prose style, Pereda considers the persistent influence of European colonialism on Mexican intellectual life, the politics of inclusion, and the changing ideas of what it means to be Mexican. He identifies three \"vices\"--social habits, customs, and beliefs inherited from European colonialism--that have influenced the development of Mexican national identity: \u003ci\u003esubaltern fervor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ecraving for novelty\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003enationalist zeal\u003c\/i\u003e. Pereda demonstrates that these three tendencies have led Mexican intellectuals, and Mexican society more generally, to uncritically adopt a politics of exclusion and destructive nationalist attitudes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using a strategy he calls \"nomadic\" thinking--the act of moving beyond our cultural preconceptions and habits of thinking--Pereda guides readers through a number of examples drawn from Mexican philosophy and culture that illustrate these tendencies. At its core, \u003ci\u003eMexico Unveiled\u003c\/i\u003e is an accessible and entertaining introduction to the philosophical themes that have long occupied Pereda's life and work and Mexican philosophy more generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlos Pereda\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus at the Institute for Philosophical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Two of his books, \u003ci\u003eLessons in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePractical Holism and Nomadic Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, have previously been translated into English by Sean Manning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoell Birondo\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. His previous books are \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Psychology of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVirtue's Reasons: New Essays on Virtue, Character, and Reasons\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51734871376146,"sku":"9780826507990","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4d022631-e00f-4270-9018-adc2404aa0a5.jpg?v=1763490844","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mexico-unveiled-resisting-colonial-vices-and-other-complaints-9780826507990","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}