Name: The Autumn of the West
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Author: Jorge Majfud
ISBN: 9781733208116

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jorge Majfud

Publisher

Spartacus NY

Language

English

Pages

410

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.3x2.3 cm

Weight

0.47 kg.

ISBN13

9781733208116

Synopsis "The Autumn of the West"

Jorge Majfud reflects once again on the economic, political, and cultural realities of the first two decades of the century 21st with "an outsider's view from the center": the culture of masks of the United States' cultural industries and national unconscious, the hyper-fragmentation of the contemporary individual, the construction of reality through social narratives, the narrative dictated by the major social powers of money and the social castes who have taken us steadily toward a new form of feudalism, one no longer based on ownership of the land but of finance capital. In all of the essays that comprise this book, one can see the urgency of responding to the historical moment, to the specific events that have occurred over the past two decades, but with an unflinching effort to contextualize events within their greater historical framework. Because, as the author asserts, forgetting is one of the principal weapons of moral, social, and, ultimately, military violence.

Jorge Majfud

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Jorge Majfud Albernaz is a Uruguayan-American novelist, essayist, and university professor. He is currently a professor at Jacksonville University and regularly contributes articles and interviews to various international media. His books have been mainly published in Spain and Latin America.

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