Eduardo Grüner – författare

It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labor led to a form of proto-globalization in which violence was indispensable to the production of wealth. Against the background of this expanding circulation of capital and slave labor, the first revolution in Latin America took place: the Haitian Revolution, which began in 1791 and culminated with Haiti’s declaration of independence in 1804. Taking the Haitian Revolution as a paradigmatic case, Grüner shows that modernity is not a linear evolution from the center to the periphery but, rather, a co-production developed in the context of highly unequal power relations, where extreme forms of conquest and exploitation were an indispensable part of capital accumulation. He also shows that the Haitian Revolution opened up a path to a different kind of modernity, or “counter-modernity,” a path along which Latin America and the Caribbean have traveled ever since.A key work of critical theory from a Latin American perspective, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical and cultural theory and of Latin America, as well as anyone concerned with the global impact of capitalism, colonialism, and race.

It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labor led to a form of proto-globalization in which violence was indispensable to the production of wealth. Against the background of this expanding circulation of capital and slave labor, the first revolution in Latin America took place: the Haitian Revolution, which began in 1791 and culminated with Haiti’s declaration of independence in 1804. Taking the Haitian Revolution as a paradigmatic case, Grüner shows that modernity is not a linear evolution from the center to the periphery but, rather, a co-production developed in the context of highly unequal power relations, where extreme forms of conquest and exploitation were an indispensable part of capital accumulation. He also shows that the Haitian Revolution opened up a path to a different kind of modernity, or “counter-modernity,” a path along which Latin America and the Caribbean have traveled ever since.A key work of critical theory from a Latin American perspective, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical and cultural theory and of Latin America, as well as anyone concerned with the global impact of capitalism, colonialism, and race.

La historia oficial construyó un relato donde el Psicoanálisis y la Revolución de Octubre fueron por caminos separados. Una Revolución, que supuestamente abjuró del psicoanálisis. Un Psicoanálisis, que siguiendo las instrucciones de Freud, se opuso a cualquier encuentro con el marxismo.Sin embargo, la historia fue otra. Este libro pone luz sobre aquellos sucesos que fueron enterrados por las hegemonías. Un conjunto de investigaciones ideadas y compiladas por Enrique Carpintero toman distintos tópicos de lo sucedido en el psicoanálisis atravesado por la Revolución de Octubre.Walter Benjamin sostenía que "La historia es objeto de construcción cuyo marco no es el tiempo homogéneo y vacío, sino un ámbito lleno de ´tiempo actual´". A cien años de la Revolución de Octubre nos encontramos con un mundo que ha cambiado radicalmente. Un mundo atravesado por la crisis de un sujeto que hace necesario seguir sosteniendo la esperanza de un proyecto emancipatorio social y político. La actualidad de nuestro tiempo hace necesario recordar. Y este es el propósito de este libro.