Luis Martinez Andrade is a Mexican essayist, with a PhD in sociology from EHESS in Paris. In 2009 he received the internationally acclaimed Thinking Against the Mainstream essay award in Havana. He is the author of Religion Without Redemption (Pluto, 2015).

• Foreword by Michael LöwyProloguePart I: Entelechies and Cathedrals1. Civilising Paradigms and Colonial Atavisms: Power and Social Sciences2. The Shopping Mall as the Paradigmatic Figure of Neocolonial Discourse: Racism and Power in Latin AmericaPart II: Utopia and Liberation3. The Portentous Eclosion of the Principle of Hope: Ernst Bloch and Liberation4. The Gun Powder of the Dwarf: Unearthly Reflections on Contemporary Political Philosophy5. Tendencies and Latencies of Liberation Theology in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex

Luis Martinez Andrade is a Mexican essayist, with a PhD in sociology from EHESS in Paris. In 2009 he received the internationally acclaimed Thinking Against the Mainstream essay award in Havana. He is the author of Religion Without Redemption (Pluto, 2015).

• Foreword by Michael LöwyProloguePart I: Entelechies and Cathedrals1. Civilising Paradigms and Colonial Atavisms: Power and Social Sciences2. The Shopping Mall as the Paradigmatic Figure of Neocolonial Discourse: Racism and Power in Latin AmericaPart II: Utopia and Liberation3. The Portentous Eclosion of the Principle of Hope: Ernst Bloch and Liberation4. The Gun Powder of the Dwarf: Unearthly Reflections on Contemporary Political Philosophy5. Tendencies and Latencies of Liberation Theology in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex

Luis Martinez Andrade is a Mexican essayist, with a PhD in sociology from EHESS in Paris. In 2009 he received the internationally acclaimed Thinking Against the Mainstream essay award in Havana. He is the author of Religion Without Redemption (Pluto, 2015).

• Foreword by Michael LöwyProloguePart I: Entelechies and Cathedrals1. Civilising Paradigms and Colonial Atavisms: Power and Social Sciences2. The Shopping Mall as the Paradigmatic Figure of Neocolonial Discourse: Racism and Power in Latin AmericaPart II: Utopia and Liberation3. The Portentous Eclosion of the Principle of Hope: Ernst Bloch and Liberation4. The Gun Powder of the Dwarf: Unearthly Reflections on Contemporary Political Philosophy5. Tendencies and Latencies of Liberation Theology in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex