Liberalism at Its Limits: Crime and Terror in the Latin American Cultural Text

by Ileana Rodríguez and Ilena Rodriguez

In Liberalism at Its Limits, Ileana Rodr\u00edguez considers several Latin American nations that govern under the name of liberalism yet display a shocking range of nondemocratic features. In her political, cultural, and philosophical analysis, she examines these environments in which liberalism seems to have reached its limits, as the universalizing project gives way to rampant nonstate violence, gross inequality, and neocolonialism. Focusing on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822960192
• ISBN13: 9780822960195
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"