The Autumn of the West: The Slow Suicide of the West and The Culture of Hate

by Jorge Majfud

Overview

Jorge Majfud reflects once again on the economic, political, and cultural realities of the first two decades of the century 21st with "an outsider's view from the center": the culture of masks of the United States' cultural industries and national unconscious, the hyper-fragmentation of the contemporary individual, the construction of reality through social narratives, the narrative dictated by the major social powers of money and the social castes who have taken us steadily toward a new form of feudalism, one no longer based on ownership of the land but of finance capital. In all of the essays that comprise this book, one can see the urgency of responding to the historical moment, to the specific events that have occurred over the past two decades, but with an unflinching effort to contextualize events within their greater historical framework. Because, as the author asserts, forgetting is one of the principal weapons of moral, social, and, ultimately, military violence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781737171041
Publisher:	Rebelde Editores
Publication date:	05/06/2021
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Jorge Majfud is a Uruguayan American writer. He lived and worked in South and Central America, Africa, and Europe. He is the author of many essays’ books such as Una teoría sonbre los campos semánticos (2005), On the Post-Enlightenment Era (2018), and novels like La reina de América (2001), La ciudad de la Luna (2009), Crisis (2012), Tequila (2018), El mismo fuego (2019), and Silicona 5.0 (2020). A former architect and instructor of mathematics, he currently is a professor of International Studies at Jacksonville University in Florida. His latest book is La frontera salvaje. 200 años de fanatismo anglosajón en América latina (2021).