Dilemmas Of Andean Modernity: Social Morality, Economy Of Passions And Aesthetics, Bolivia And Peru (1900 1950).
Resumen del Libro
This dissertation focuses on processes of modernization that occurred in the Andean region of Latin America in the first half of the twentieth century. In response to the crisis opened by modernization, Franz Tamayo in Bolivia and Abraham Valdelomar in Peru developed an alternative concept of modernity. Their work reflects an alliance between a reform of social customs and the aesthetic education of citizens. Seeking to transcend the chaotic multitude of social groups, they envisioned the bourgeois modern public sphere as the space where a people could be born. But the actually existing public sphere was more of a hybrid between a legislation and customs, still indebted to the Colonial heritage, and a desire to be a private, modern individual.
