A Socialist Alternative to Baroque ethos of Bolívar Echeverría

Abstract

From an analysis of actual philosophical positions like Hermeneutics, this article states a critics to the concept of baroque ethos of Bolívar Echeverría. Without to pass over its contributions, the author indicates that the principal inssufficiency of such a concept (in order to found a philosophy of culture in Latin America) consists in the dificulty that this concept has to arrive to an alternative modernism in oposition to the globalization and the neoliberalism, because the concept of baroque ethosonly refers to the historical conditions of XVII century. It is necesary to explain and define another class of modernism like socialist modernism. For this reasons, it must incorporates another statemens like those developed for authors like José Carlos Mariátegui and Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, and also the complementary concept of neobaroque developed for Samuel Arriarán and Mauricio Beuchot.