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WORK TITLE: On the Difficulty of Living Together
WORK NOTES: trans by Richard Jacques
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BIRTHDATE: 1951
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https://cup.columbia.edu/book/on-the-difficulty-of-living-together/9780231164009 * https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/479930 * https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Cruz * http://www.ub.edu/catedrafilosofiacontemporanea/es/curriculum/manuelcruz
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Title: Prof.
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PERSONAL
Born 1951.
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CAREER
University of Barcelona, Spain, professor.
AWARDS:Anagrama prize, 205, for Las malas pasades del pasado.
WRITINGS
SIDELIGHTS
Manuel Cruz is a professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He has also taught as a visiting professor at numerous universities in Italy and Latin America.
Taking Charge
Taking Charge: On Responsibility and Personal Identity, the first of Cruz’s books to appear in English, attempts to articulate a political philosophy that unites politics and ethics. Noting that identity politics and theories of difference have become pervasive in western societies, Cruz shows that such discourses are imperialistic and paternalistic. Rejecting these approaches, the author argues instead for a radical philosophy centered on equality.
Philosophers welcomed Taking Charge as an important work that draws on diverse traditions in philosophy. In comments posted on the publisher’s Web site, Michael Marder, a faculty member at Duquesne University, deemed the book among the “most powerful and original articulations of political philosophy . . . [to appear] in recent years.”
On the Difficulty of Living Together
In On the Difficulty of Living Together: Memory, Politics, and History Cruz examines the forms, uses, and meanings of memory and forgetting. Organizing his study according to five basic modes of memory, Cruz argues that remembering can have both positive and negative effects, and that memory can be affected by external influences.
The author discusses remembering as an inherently valuable behavior; as a way to make sense of present realities; as a means of working toward social justice and retribution; as a component of mourning; and as a means of reaching a state of renunciation or revelation. Arguing against the view that remembering is a necessary step in learning to avoid past mistakes, Cruz writes that the act of remembering is rife with contradiction and does not necessarily lead toward expected results. The author shows how memory and history intertwine, and how memory-making contributes to and is influenced by community identity and dynamics.
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly July 9, 2007, review of Dark Possession: A Carpathian Novel. p. 37.
New Internationalist Jan.-Feb., 2002. Fisher, George. , “Born in blood and fire: A concise history of Latin America. (Mixed Media).”. p. 47.
Americas Jan.-Feb., 1996. Mujica, Barbara. , “The Answer.”. p. 62+.
ONLINE
Bloomsbury Publishing Web Site, https://www.bloomsbury.com/ (September 6, 2017), Cruz profile and synposis of Taking Charge: On Responsibility and Personal Identity.
Columbia University Press Web Site, https://cup.columbia.edu/ (September 6, 2017), Cruz profile and synopsis of On the Difficulty of Living Together:Memory, Politics, and History.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Manuel Cruz is professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Barcelona and author of more than twenty titles, including Taking Charge: On Responsibility and Personal Identity (2011).
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Dark Possession: A Carpathian Novel
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254.27 (July 9, 2007): p37.
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Bestseller Feehan's steamy and dreamy 18th Carpathian novel (after 2006's Dark Celebration) explores the erotic allure
of ancient shape-shifters, Brazilian rain forests and vampires. Manuel "Manolito" De La Cruz, one of those dark,
irresistible Carpathian hunks who can only thrive with one woman by his side, has found his life mate in MaryAnn
Delaney, a Seattle counselor for battered women who flies to his Brazilian family compound to help a pregnant rape
victim. It takes a while for MaryAnn to accept Manolito's love, as Feehan, with her usual expertise, draws out the
foreplay between the two. Feverish jungle encounters with Jaguar-men and MaryAnn's shocking discovery of her inner
werewolf add spice, while growing tensions in the Carpathian World create other problems. Feehan's combo platter of
danger, fantasy and wild, uninhibited romance continues to sizzle. (Aug.)
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Born in blood and fire: A concise history of Latin
America. (Mixed Media)
George Fisher
New Internationalist.
(January-February 2002): p47.
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John Chasteen
(W W Norton, ISBN 0393976130)
Latin American histories have tended to treat the region as if it were moored off the Spanish or Portuguese coast. Born
in Blood and Fire is a welcome change, looking beyond the obvious to explain the political, social and economic trends
that have helped shape Latin America and endow its nations so richly.
Chasteen deals efficiently with class systems and complex racial diversity. He does not condescend when discussing
regional struggles that have ebbed and flowed since the days when some Mayan cities were superstates and others
formed NATO-like alliances to fend off rivals. Nor does he take the high ground when dealing with the errors of the
post- and neo-colonial periods, nor with continuing social injustices.
The book is refreshing for the way it handles the search for new national identities, as well as the often-devious ways
the US has treated its southern neighbours. It is also insightful in showing how the European ideas of liberalism and
nationalism helped the indigenous peoples' long struggle for political and, more recently, economic independence.
This is history made accessible through the lives of ordinary women and men: not only Simon Bolivar, who spread a
revolutionary gospel of independence, Che Guevara and Canek, a Yucatec Maya who led a short but important revolt
against Spanish rule in Mexico in 1761; but also Cortes, Malinche, Sister Juana Ines de Ia Cruz, and Manuel Hidalgo.
This impressive book has much else to offer, including the role of popular music in raising political consciousness.
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The Answer
Barbara Mujica
Americas.
48.1 (January-February 1996): p62.
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A canonical work is forever fresh and new, offering each succeeding generation insights germane to its concerns. Sor
Juana's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sister Filotea de la Cruz was a powerful feminist statement when it was written
three hundred years ago, and it speaks eloquently to today's readers as well. Although the Mexican nun's works have
been translated into English many times over the centuries, Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell have given The Answer
a distinctly feminist reading, focusing, as Sor Juana did in the original, on issues of gender. Through their introduction,
notes, and carefully worded translation, they convey the complexity of Sor Juana's thought as well as her immense
frustration.
A prodigiously talented adolescent in an age in which intellectual women were considered fascinating aberrations, Sor
Juana taught herself rhetoric, theology, literature, and science, and astounded the court with her knowledge. In 1668
she entered a convent in order to devote herself to intellectual pursuits, according to Arenal and Powell, although other
scholars have advanced different theories. The cloister afforded her with the opportunity to continue studying and
writing on secular as well as religious subjects, and the recognition she achieved from the ruling elite including from
the new viceroy and his wife - soon provoked the wrath of the ecclesiastical authorities. Father Antonio Nunez de
Miranda was so contemptuous that Sor Juana relieved him of his duties as her confessor.
Colonial convents were often thriving social and artistic centers. Living in a posh cell and attended by several servants
and a slave, Sor Juana continued to cultivate her interests - poetry, music, science, theology - and to entertain
influential guests. Her celebrity grew in educated circles, not only in Mexico, but also in Spain. However, churchmen
such as Nunez were unrelenting in their criticism, for Sor Juana not only wrote "unchaste" love poems, but also
meddled in theology - an unseemly activity for a woman.
In a conversation at the convent, Sor Juana became engaged in a complex theological discussion, which was witnessed
by her longtime friend, Bishop Manuel Fernandez de Santa Cruz, who requested that she commit her thoughts to
writing. Sor Juana believed that the text would be seen only by him, but he treacherously delivered it to the press,
appending a letter signed "Sor Filotea" as a preface. This purportedly friendly letter, with its pretense of pious concern,
was a public attack on Sot Juana with a veiled threat of persecution. The viceroy and vicereine had already returned to
Spain, and without their protection, Sor Juana was in a particularly vulnerable position. The Answer is Sot Juana's
response to the bishop, written in her own defense.
In this remarkable document, Sor Juana displays her incredible linguistic skill and mental agility. In the baroque
tradition, she cultivates a multiplicity of voices and meanings. Her knowledge of rhetorical conventions and the
elements of hagiography, her use of empirical observation and deduction, and her command of sermonic and epistolary
forms make The Answer one of the richest works of prose of the Golden Age.
But while Arenal and Powell do a superb job of rendering The Answer into English, Sor Juana's stylistic brilliance is
not the point of their translation. The Mexican nun offered, as no other writer of her time could have, a distinctly
woman-centered vision. Finding no female intellectual peers in her own world, she defends her right to the scholarly
life by producing numerous examples of learned women from the past, thereby showing that active intelligence in
females is the rule, rather than the exception. She reexamines Saint Paul's admonition that women should remain silent
in church, arguing that it was meant to apply not only to women, but to all those who are incompetent. Feigning
humility, Sor Juana unmasks the semantics of repression. By playfully referring to the scientific knowledge she gleans
from cooking, she creates a space - the kitchen, the nursery - where women can teach each other and exercise their
talents. By so doing, she defends the notion that intellectual activity is the rightful domain of either gender.
Furthermore, she demonstrates that prohibitions on women's talking and teaching are based on misinterpretations of
doctrine.
Like today's feminists, Sor Juana called for a change in outlook. She disparaged her superiors' views on the proper role
of women as myopic and erroneous, and she exposed the gender-repressive elements embedded in language and
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ideology. Arenal and Powell judiciously caution against applying today's feminist agenda to Sor Juana, for her world
was dramatically different from ours. At the same time, they show that her impassioned defense of women's right to
the pursuit of wisdom set a precedent for modern feminism. Three centuries after it was written, The Answer still stuns
us with its beauty, its genius, and its relevance.
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