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TY - JOUR
T1 - The social function of Carlos Fuentes : a critical intellectual or in the 'shadow of the state?'.
AU - Morton, Adam David
PY - 2003/1
Y1 - 2003/1
N2 - This article seeks to raise meaningful questions about the role, or wider social function, of the intellectual within state–civil society relations in Latin America characterised by conditions of socio–economic modernisation. It does so by pursuing such questions through a detailed examination of the social function of Carlos Fuentes as an intellectual in Mexico. Through a focus on the social function of Carlos Fuentes, it is possible to distinguish the role intellectual activity can play in the construction and contestation of hegemony in Mexico. Most crucially, the article prompts consideration of the social basis of hegemony and the agency of intellectuals organically tied to particular social forces functioning through state–civil society relations in the struggle over hegemony. Put differently, it is possible to grant due regard to the mixture of critical opposition and accommodation that has often confronted the intellectual within Latin America.
AB - This article seeks to raise meaningful questions about the role, or wider social function, of the intellectual within state–civil society relations in Latin America characterised by conditions of socio–economic modernisation. It does so by pursuing such questions through a detailed examination of the social function of Carlos Fuentes as an intellectual in Mexico. Through a focus on the social function of Carlos Fuentes, it is possible to distinguish the role intellectual activity can play in the construction and contestation of hegemony in Mexico. Most crucially, the article prompts consideration of the social basis of hegemony and the agency of intellectuals organically tied to particular social forces functioning through state–civil society relations in the struggle over hegemony. Put differently, it is possible to grant due regard to the mixture of critical opposition and accommodation that has often confronted the intellectual within Latin America.
KW - Carlos Fuentes • Mexican Revolution • social function of the intellectual • Antonio Gramsci • hegemony • passive revolution
U2 - 10.1111/1470-9856.00063
DO - 10.1111/1470-9856.00063
M3 - Journal article
VL - 22
SP - 27
EP - 53
JO - Bulletin of Latin American Research
JF - Bulletin of Latin American Research
SN - 0261-3050
IS - 1
ER -