Whose Nietzsche for Latin America? Rodó's or Mariátegui's?

Abstract

As much as the Utopias generated by Marxism in the 1960s, a different —yet equally worthy— kind of modernism generates its own Utopias now. Liberalism, a necessary and humanizing force against tyranny in much of the 19th and 20th century, finds itself, at the dawn of the new millennium, as self-enthralled by its own devices and dreams as the admirable revolutionaries of the Left of earlier times.