Contents
Foreword – Diana Fuentes, vii
Translator’s Preface, xviii
Introduction, xxi
1. A Definition of Modernity, 1
2. "Technological Rent" and the "Devaluation" of Nature, 20
3. Meanings of Enlightenment, 26
4. Images of "Whiteness", 38
5. "American" Modernity: Keys to its Understanding, 52
6. From Academia to Bohemia and Beyond, 74
7. Art and Utopia, 89
8. Sartre from a Distance, 106
9. Where is "the Left" Now?, 123
10. Meditations on the Baroque, 128
11. The Mexican '68 and its City, 150
12. Mexican Modernity and Anti-Modernity, 170
Notes, 182
Index, 199