Juan Corradi

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Comparative sociologist and theorist, specializes today in geopolitics. Has done research and teaching in 7 universities around the world. Author of 7 books and more than 300 articles. Avid offshore sailor and explorer. Multi-lingual.

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Papers by Juan Corradi

The End of an Era

The Making of a Nation

The Return of the Proscribed

We Have a Problem

The New Ancien Régime

Ideology & social change in Latin America

Gordon and Breach eBooks, 1977

The Culture of Fear in Civil Society

Running Amok, or the End of Capitalism as We Know It

Geostrategic Rivalries in a Period of Potential Deglobalization

A Paucity of Thought and Action

Anthem Press eBooks, Mar 5, 2012

South of the Crisis

The book offers an unorthodox account of why and how global capitalism has entered a phase of uns... more

Other Capitalisms: What Latin Americans Can Learn from Those who Do It Well

Anthem Press eBooks, Mar 5, 2012

The Colonial Legacy

The Cult of Fear

The Failure of Alternatives

The Dictatorial Temptation

Julio Cortazar (1914-1984)

Telos, Apr 1, 1984

He was almost a year older than my father. Yet when I learned of his death on February 12 in Pari... more He was almost a year older than my father. Yet when I learned of his death on February 12 in Paris I did not have the sense of an orderly passing of generations. Julio Cortázar had the personal as well as the literary ability of remaining young. It was the combination of a nimble mind, the experimental quality of his narrative, and the uncanny resilience of his lean figure to the routine ravages of time (he looked a good 25 years younger than his age). He stood tall in a generation of splendid Latin American writers. As Carlos Fuentes has remarked, he is the first figure of what is known as the Latin American boom to go.