The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X221091220
• Published date: 01 July 2022
• Date: 01 July 2022
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

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Mariátegui, José.Carlos

1925 “El hombre y el mito.” Mundial 5 (241).

1994 (1929) “Manhattan Transfer, de John Dos Passos,” pp. 691–694 in Mariátegui total, Vol. 1.

Lima: Amauta.

Matos, José

1990 “Las migraciones campesinas y el proceso de urbanización en el Perú.” https://centro-

derecursos.cultura.pe/sites/default/files/rb/pdf/Las%20migraciones%20campesinas%20

y%20el%20proceso%20de%20urbanizacion%20en%20el%20Peru%20Matos%20Mar.pdf

(accessed May 10, 2021).

Mazzeo, Miguel

1995 Volver a Mariátegui. Buenos Aires: Centro de Estudios Universitarios José Carlos

Mariátegui.

Negri, Antonio, Michael Hardt, Giuseppe Cocco, Judith Revel, Álvaro García Linera, and Luis

Tapia

2008 Imperio, multitud y sociedad abigarrada. La Paz: CLACSO.

Ouviña, Hernán

2021 Rosa Luxemburgo e a reinvenção da política. São Paulo: Boitempo Editorial.

Portelli, Hugues

1998 Gramsci y el bloque histórico. Mexico City: Siglo XXI.

Quijano, Anibal

1992 “Colonialidad y modernidad/racionalidad.” Perú Indígena 13 (29): 11–20.

Walsh, Catherine

2012 “Interculturalidad y (de)colonialidad: perspectivas críticas y políticas.” Visão Global 15

(1-2): 61–74.

Wiesse, Maria

1959 José Carlos Mariátegui: Etapas de su vida. Lima: Editora Amauta.

Yepes del Castillo, Ernesto

1971 Perú 1820–1920: Un siglo de desarrollo capitalista. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.

The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

by

Harry E. Vanden

Juan E. De Castro Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos

Mariátegui. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021.

DOI: 10.1177/0094582X221091220

Juan E. De Castro’s Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui is

an intellectual tour de force and an outstanding source for studying and understanding

the Peruvian socialist’s thought, politics, and aesthetics. De Castro’s encyclopedic

knowledge of Mariateguist scholarship and its context make for a kaleidoscopic render-

ing of the person and his work and a profound appreciation for the nature and depth

of his thought. The work is divided into 10 chapters on diverse aspects of the Peruvian

Marxist’s thought and its intellectual and geographic contexts, including treatments of

Harry E. Vanden is a participating editor of Latin American Perspectives and professor emeritus at

the University of South Florida. He researched his dissertation on Mariátegui as a Fulbright

scholar in Peru and has published two books and many articles and chapters on the Peruvian

Marxist. With Marc Becker, he is translator and editor of José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology

(2011).