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Vol. 37 No. 1 (2022): 109, January-April
Reviews and Bibliographical Commentaries

Beck, Humberto (2016). Otra modernidad es posible. El pensamiento de Ivan Illich. México: Malpaso

Luis Raúl Pérez Herrera
Instituto Tecnológico del Occidente del Estado de Hidalgo

Published 2022-03-03

Keywords

  • Modernity,
  • Ivan Illich,
  • urbanism

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Pérez Herrera, L. R. (2022). Beck, Humberto (2016). Otra modernidad es posible. El pensamiento de Ivan Illich. México: Malpaso. Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos, 37(1), 347–353. https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v37i1.2128
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Abstract

A century ago, Paul Klee's Angelus Novus already warned us, according to Walter Benjamin, that modernity was nothing more than a catastrophe that tirelessly accumulates ruin upon ruin. One hundred years later, that warning threatens the possibilities of the present by becoming the future. In the midst of this, humanity today is perhaps more defenseless and vulnerable than ever. What the centuries have built shows us the crudest of its facets: society unsuccessfully tries to react through empty concepts and practices incapable of being up to the historical task; the only light that guides the way to the future seems to be the fire of our own destruction.

References

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  4. Echeverría, B. (2011). La modernidad de lo barroco. Ciudad de México: Era.
  5. Illich, I. (1975). Némesis Médica. La expropiación de la salud. Barcelona: Barral.