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Selected Writings of Andrés Bello by Frances López-Morillas and Andrés. Bello (1997, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195105451
ISBN-139780195105452
eBay Product ID (ePID)679111
Product Key Features
Book TitleSelected Writings of Andrés Bello
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year1997
GenreFiction, History
AuthorFrances López-Morillas, Andrés. Bello
Book SeriesLibrary of Latin America Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-044127
Reviews"Available in English for the first time, the greatest essays and speechesof the 19th-century Latin American educator, politician, and scholar, a leadingfigure in building a humanistic post-colonial tradition in LatinAmerica."--Kirkus Reviews, "As Bello was something of a polymath, this collection includes poetry as well as essays and letters, comments on tropical agriculture and standardizing orthography as well as educational methods, constitutional law, politics, monarchies, and international law. Often compared to ThomasJefferson, Bello is widely respected across the southern half of the Western Hemisphere; this first English translation should bring him overdue attention farther north."--Booklist, "Andres Bello stands out as an intellectual giant whose projects andachievements are relevant to the whole of the Americas. In Selected Writings ofAndres Bellos, we encounter, among much else, his odes to South American nature,which are, in spite of their neoclassical cast, a Romantic call to look withfresh eyes at the New World's landscape. They are the clearest antecedent toNeruda.Ivan Jaksic's selection of prose and verse is excellent, and FrancesLopez-Morillas's translation is superb."--The Wall Street Journal InteractiveEdition, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, "As Bello was something of a polymath, this collection includes poetry aswell as essays and letters, comments on tropical agriculture and standardizingorthography as well as educational methods, constitutional law, politics,monarchies, and international law. Often compared to Thomas Jefferson, Bello iswidely respected across the southern half of the Western Hemisphere; this firstEnglish translation should bring him overdue attention farthernorth."--Booklist, "Andres Bello stands out as an intellectual giant whose projects and achievements are relevant to the whole of the Americas. In Selected Writings of Andres Bellos, we encounter, among much else, his odes to South American nature, which are, in spite of their neoclassical cast, a Romantic callto look with fresh eyes at the New World's landscape. They are the clearest antecedent to Neruda.Ivan Jaksic's selection of prose and verse is excellent, and Frances Lopez-Morillas's translation is superb."--The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, "Available in English for the first time, the greatest essays and speeches of the 19th-century Latin American educator, politician, and scholar, a leading figure in building a humanistic post-colonial tradition in Latin America."--Kirkus Reviews
SynopsisAndres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he encompassed an enormous spectrum of concerns, wielded astonishing influence, and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. Indeed, in North America perhaps only Thomas Jefferson presents a figure of comparable scope and stature, and Bello is as crucial and as famous in Latin America as Jefferson is in the United States. Nearly every city in Latin America has its Andres Bello Avenue, its Andres Bello statue, even its Andres Bello university. He held several key government positions, authored Chile's civil code, launched several newspapers, wrote prodigiously on a vast array of subjects, and implemented important educational reforms. Yet until now his work has remained virtually unknown to English-speaking readers. The Selected Writings of Andres Bello, edited by Ivan Jaksic, brilliantly succeeds both in representing the full range of Bello's contribution and in giving us a coherent picture of his thought. The selections gathered here explore such subjects as grammar and philology, constitutional reform, the aims of education, international relations, historiography, Latin and Roman Law, government and society, and many others. Throughout his work, Bello's central concerns with language, education, law, and the nature of responsible government and responsible citizenship, appear again and again. In one essay, Bello traces the evolution of writing from the earliest pictorial symbols to the development of an alphabet capable of communicating abstract ideas. In another, he argues that representative government, more than any other, depends upon a literate and educated citizenry. And in another, he asserts that freedom requires laws that are equally observed by everyone. "Can there be greater injustice," he asks, "than a readiness to trample on the rights of others, while trying to have one's own rights religiously observed?" In these and many other essays, Bello writes with grace, extraordinary insight, and a clear-headed vision of what would be necessary to provide a sustainable order for the fledgling republics of Latin America. More than any of his contemporaries, Bello provides the crucial bridge between the cast-off colonial culture of the Spanish empire and the promising beginnings of the new nation-states. As part of the Library of Latin America series,The Selected Writings of Andres Bello gives us a generous sampling of a gifted and graceful thinker who must be included in any understanding of the origins and development of Latin America., Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he encompassed an enormous spectrum of concerns, wielded astonishing influence, and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. Indeed, in North America perhaps only Thomas Jefferson presents a figure of comparable scope and stature, and Bello is as crucial and as famous in Latin America as Jefferson is in the United States. Nearly every city in Latin America has its Andres Bello Avenue, its Andres Bello statue, even its Andres Bello university. He held several key government positions, authored Chile's civil code, launched several newspapers, wrote prodigiously on a vast array of subjects, and implemented important educational reforms. Yet until now his work has remained virtually unknown to English-speaking readers. The Selected Writings of Andres Bello, edited by Ivan Jaksic, brilliantly succeeds both in representing the full range of Bello's contribution and in giving us a coherent picture of his thought. The selections gathered here explore such subjects as grammar and philology, constitutional reform, the aims of education, international relations, historiography, Latin and Roman Law, government and society, and many others. Throughout his work, Bello's central concerns with language, education, law, and the nature of responsible government and responsible citizenship, appear again and again. In one essay, Bello traces the evolution of writing from the earliest pictorial symbols to the development of an alphabet capable of communicating abstract ideas. In another, he argues that representative government, more than any other, depends upon a literate and educated citizenry. And in another, he asserts that freedom requires laws that are equally observed by everyone. "Can there be greater injustice," he asks, "than a readiness to trample on the rights of others, while trying to have one's own rights religiously observed?" In these and many other essays, Bello writes with grace, extraordinary insight, and a clear-headed vision of what would be necessary to provide a sustainable order for the fledgling republics of Latin America. More than any of his contemporaries, Bello provides the crucial bridge between the cast-off colonial culture of the Spanish empire and the promising beginnings of the new nation-states. As part of the Library of Latin America series, The Selected Writings of Andres Bello gives us a generous sampling of a gifted and graceful thinker who must be included in any understanding of the origins and development of Latin America., Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he encompassed an enormous spectrum of concerns, wielded astonishing influence, and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. Indeed, in North America perhaps only Thomas Jefferson presents a figure of comparable scope and stature, and Bello is as crucial and as famous in Latin America as Jefferson is in the United States. Nearly every city in Latin America has its Andres Bello Avenue, its Andres Bello statue, even its Andres Bello university. He held several key government positions, authored Chile's civil code, launched several newspapers, wrote prodigiously on a vast array of subjects, and implemented important educational reforms. Yet until now his work has remained virtually unknown to English-speaking readers. The Selected Writings of Andres Bello , edited by Ivan Jaksic, brilliantly succeeds both in representing the full range of Bello's contribution and in giving us a coherent picture of his thought. The selections gathered here explore such subjects as grammar and philology, constitutional reform, the aims of education, international relations, historiography, Latin and Roman Law, government and society, and many others. Throughout his work, Bello's central concerns with language, education, law, and the nature of responsible government and responsible citizenship, appear again and again. In one essay, Bello traces the evolution of writing from the earliest pictorial symbols to the development of an alphabet capable of communicating abstract ideas. In another, he argues that representative government, more than any other, depends upon a literate and educated citizenry. And in another, he asserts that freedom requires laws that are equally observed by everyone. "Can there be greater injustice," he asks, "than a readiness to trample on the rights of others, while trying to have one's own rights religiously observed?" In these and many other essays, Bello writes with grace, extraordinary insight, and a clear-headed vision of what would be necessary to provide a sustainable order for the fledgling republics of Latin America. More than any of his contemporaries, Bello provides the crucial bridge between the cast-off colonial culture of the Spanish empire and the promising beginnings of the new nation-states. As part of the Library of Latin America series, The Selected Writings of Andres Bello gives us a generous sampling of a gifted and graceful thinker who must be included in any understanding of the origins and development of Latin America.
LC Classification NumberPQ8549.B3A6 1997
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