The sensed nation. 30 essays on Ecuador

Chapters

• 1. A chaos that "works"
• 2. Between horror vacui and proclivitas plenus
• 3. Navel obsession
• 4. The rock of Sisyphus
• 5. The American reflection
• 6. The discovery of Europe and the revelation of America
• 7. The color-blind look of the conqueror
• 8. Hegel's Eurocentrism
• 9. In search of paradise lost
• 10. The look of others
• 11. The ruins of the past are the ruins of the present
• 12. A "society inaccessible to the traveler"
• 13. Democracy and authoritarianism
• 14. The authoritarian inheritance
• 15. The nation of presentiment
• 16. On our Hispanicism and other stereotypes
• 17. "God is Spanish"
• 18. Language, people and nation
• 19. Explaining ourselves with other people's thoughts
• 20. A Hispanophile vision of the nation
• 21. A lay prophet of the "little great country"
• 22. The nation: longing and desire to become
• 23. One homeland, one nation
• 24. Identity, otherness and conflict
• 25. The state is plural, the nation is diverse, Ecuador is one
• 26. Modern Janus
• 27. The "national culture
• 28. The variegated trail of national culture
• 29. Identity and media
• 30. The jungle and the roads