Enrique Krauze

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La autobiograf a intelectual de Enrique Krauze, el pensador liberal m s le do de Latinoam rica. Una biograf a intelectual no es la biograf a de la vida privada. Es la historia de una formaci n en la que intervienen muchos factores, muchas presencias y escenarios: escuelas, experiencias, viajes y, sobre todo, lecturas. La vida intelectual sigue la trayectoria de las ideas en el tiempo, de ideas encarnadas en una persona y, fundamentalmente, en el di logo que ha mantenido con figuras tutelares, maestros, colegas, amigos. As se hilvana una biograf a intelectual: conversando con abuelos, mentores, compa eros de tantas batallas, autores admirados. Conversando en el caf m s que en las aulas. Y conversando con los libros. Fascinado por las vidas de tantos mexicanos y latinoamericanos eminentes, por comprenderlas y narrarlas, Enrique Krauze no hab a abordado su propio quehacer como historiador, editor, ensayista y cr tico del poder. Hasta ahora. A partir de una serie de conversaciones con Jos Mar a Lassalle, el autor ofrece su libro m s ntimo y revelador: Spinoza en el Parque M xico.

«Krauze se ha distinguido por sus intervenciones a favor de la democracia y el debate para mejorar la vida p blica de M xico. Ha sido un estadista ciudadano, con nimo valiente frente al poder y la incomprensi n. --Gabriel Zaid Para Enrique Krauze, la cr tica al poder es un compromiso de larga data que se conecta con la aspiraci n de que logre­mos pasar de una presidencia imperial a una institucional. Al final, estas p ginas vislumbran la posibilidad de recons­truir la concordia perdida en M xico, cuyo camino est en la convergencia entre los partidos de oposici n y una valiente y activa sociedad civil. «El c mulo de cortaduras y pinceladas con gue Krauze analiza la situaci n pol tica mexicana deber a ser una fuente de inspira­ci n para todos, a la izguierda o a la derecha, sin que se le exija a l gue adopte las identidades gue otros deben asumir. Como liberal, su tarea ha sido la de mantenerse independiente y l cido, sin otro compromiso que el de la luz de su inteligencia. --Roger Bartra«La f rmula gue ha prescrito Enrique Krauze, ya esa me atengo, y por ello, lo felicito, porque la ha practicado y suscitado, es debatir, debatir, debatir. --Miguel Angel Granados Chapa ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Krauze has distinguished himself through his interventions, favoring democracy and debate to improve public life in Mexico. He has been a civic statesman with a courageous spirit in the face of power and incomprehension." -Gabriel Zaid. To Enrique Krauze, critiquing power is a long-lasting commitment, linked to the aspiration of shifting from an imperial presidency to an institutional one. In the end, these pages are a glimpse of the possibility of rebuilding Mexico's lost concord, a path between opposite parties and a brave and active civil society. "The heap of cuts and brushes with which Krauze analyzes the Mexican political scene should be a source of inspiration to all, both left and right wings, without demanding he himself adopts the identities others should assume. As a liberal, his task has been to remain independent and clear-headed, without any other commitment than that of the light of his brilliance." -Roger Bartra. "Enrique Krauze's formula is the one I stand by, and I congratulate him, since he has practiced and elicited it: debating, debating, debating." -Miguel ngel Granados Chapa.

An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominentthinkersInhis first book to appear in English since Mexico: Biography in Power, awork which the Wall Street Journal calls "the standard history ofpostcolonial Mexico," prize-winning author Enrique Krauzeilluminates the evolution of political, social, and philosophical discourses inLatin America. With echoes of Richard Hofstadter and Edmund Wilson, Krauze explores the Latin American intellectual traditionby deftly animating its decisive figures, from Octavio Paz to Che Guevara, Jose Vasconcelos toHugo Chavez, and inscribing them upon a vivid landscape of patriotism, opportunism, morality, and avarice--and of love, honor, loyalty, and identity. Redeemersdelivers an unparalleled explication of the roots of ideology and action inLatin America today.

A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996"A magisterial history. . . . Will surely stand for many years as the standard history of postcolonial Mexico." -- Wall Street JournalThe concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Enrique Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to Porfirio and the Revolution in 1910. The Revolutionary era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives of seven presidents -- Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles and Cardenas. Since 1940, the dominant power of the presidency has continued through years of boom and bust and crisis. A major question for the modern state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power can be decentralized, to end the cycles of history as biographies of power.