The period of the fusion and the mixing of all peoples. Although he spent a good part of his life in either voluntary or compulsory exile, the impact of his original personality goes beyond his own lifetime, while his. He was an important mexican writer, philosopher and politician. Chapter 1 jose vasconcelos aboutface on the cosmic race. The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in spanish and english, jose vasconcelos predicted the coming of an aesthetic era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity would prevail over the rationalism. The philosopher and educator jose vasconcelos is a central figure in the. Revolution of 1910 and the ezln uprising of 1994 forced jose vasconcelos. He envisioned a future where race and nationality would be transcended in the name of. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in the development of modern mexico. Jose vasconcelos starb im jahr 1959 in mexikostadt. Joses mother, who was a pious catholic, died when jose was sixteen.
Jose vasconcelos 18821959 por raul trejo villalobos. Jose vasconcelos jose vasconcelos 18821959 was among the most important and influential mexican intellectuals of the twentieth century. Having fulfilled their destiny of mechanizing the world, they themselves have set, without knowing it, the basis for the new period. Jose vasconcelos was born in oaxaca, oaxaca on february 28, 1882, the son of a customs official. Jose vasconcelos 18821959 had campaigned for francisco madero, the demo. Jose vasconcelos 18821959, a mexican philosopher, sociologist, essayist, educator, and historian, is best known for his fourvolume autobiography. Apr 25, 2014 the cosmic race mexican philosopher jose vasconcelos believed a new race would be born. Barbara celarent american journal of sociology, vol. During his formative years, vasconcelos developed a profound suspicion of americans, whom he viewed.
The civilization developed and organized in our times by the whites has set the moral and material basis for the union of all men into a fifth universal race, the fruit of all the previous ones and amelioration of everything past. Jun 10, 2019 the cosmic race by jose vasconcelos, 1997, johns hopkins university press edition, in english johns hopkins paperbacks ed. The family moved to the border town of piedras negras, coahuila, where he grew up attending school in eagle pass, texas. Publication date 1956 publisher compania editorial continental,s. Mexico collection universallibrary contributor universal digital library language.
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