Insurgent Marcos: The Political-Philosophical Formation of the Zapatista Subcommander (Historia y Ciencias Sociales) - Softcover

Henck, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945234032 ISBN 13: 9781945234033

Publisher: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2017

Synopsis

The present study aims to rectify this by establishing which political-philosophical currents Marcos was exposed to during his formative years as a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and then examining the Subcommander's discourse in order to ascertain the extent to which these persisted in his thinking years later. Concretely, what the book proposes is that in his youth Marcos was especially influenced by his reading of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, and Nicos Poulantzas, and that certain core components of their thinking helped to form, and indeed continued to inform, the Subcommander's political philosophy.

About this title

About the Author:

Nick Henck is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan). In 2007 he published an English-language biography of Subcomandante Marcos entitled Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask (Duke University Press). In the years since, he has published five journal articles and one "note", as well as an encyclopedia entry, all focusing on the Subcommander.

About this edition

• Publisher: Editorial A Contracorriente
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1945234032
• ISBN 13: 9781945234033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314