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Imagining America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Carlos Fuentes

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We are approaching two dates in our personal and collective calendars that oblige us to pause and reflect on our place in time and on our task in history.

We share the first date with all of humanity. We are coming closer to a new century and a new millenium, leaving behind the epoch of grandeur and servitude that we call “the twentieth century,” even though we live our time, like all times, accompanied by its multiple pasts.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 40 , Issue 160 , September 1992 , pp. 5 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

Footnotes

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Speech delivered at UNESCO headquarters, Paris, 14 May 1991.