A Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

With their emphasis on freedom and engagement, European existentialisms offered Latin Americans transformative frameworks for thinking and writing about their own locales. In taking up these frameworks, Latin Americans endowed them with a distinctive ethos, a turn towards questions of identity and ethics. Stephanie Merrim situates major literary and philosoph...