{"product_id":"intellectuals-and-left-politics-in-uruguay-1958-2006-frustrated-dialogue-9781845192655","title":"Intellectuals and Left Politics in Uruguay,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning in the year Uruguayans elected a different party into government for the first time in nearly a century, the author examines intellectuals' role in the Uruguayan left's drive toward unity and effectiveness. Discussion focuses on fragmentation and impotence on the left; frustrated attempts at left unity in the 1960s; the creation of the centre-left Broad Front in 1971; and the defeat of all left endeavours and all dialogue in the 1973 military coup -- a prelude to a twelve-year dictatorship in which the military substituted themselves for intellectuals. The story continues in 1985, reversing the earlier trend in a record of dispersal and diversity. The author details the initial post-authoritarian anarchic cultural outburst -- part celebration, part frustration; intellectuals' role in the disputes that accompanied the Broad Front's move from democratic socialism to social democracy, and from opposition to government in 2004; and recent excursions into the long-standing Uruguayan obsession with its identity and viability as an independent nation. This book is essential reading for all those interested in interplay between intellectuals and politics in Latin America; changes in the Latin American left since the 1960s; and the leftward drift of elected governments in the Southern Cone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Uruguay as a Question; From Alienation to Integration: Intellectuals, Politics \u0026amp; Polemics; From FIDEL to the Frente: The Uruguayan Left Looks for Someone to Talk to; Dialogue Engaged: The Frente Amplio as Coalition Interlude: The Armed Forces and Failure; The Revenge of the Foreign: Uruguay on the Eve of De(con)struction; Dialogue Resumed: Democracy, Intellectuals and the Frente Amplio in Post-Dictatorship Uruguay; Dialogue Outside Politics: Uruguay as Problem in the Twenty-first Century; Conclusion.","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360200065367,"sku":"9781845192655","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845192655.jpg?v=1754126961","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intellectuals-and-left-politics-in-uruguay-1958-2006-frustrated-dialogue-9781845192655","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}