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H.
C. F. Mansilla was born in 1942 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). He spent the
school time in La Paz (Bolivia), where he is currently living as a
free-lance writer. He studied political science and philosophy at the
Berlin Free University (Germany) from 1962 till 1973, where he made his
M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1973) degrees. This university bestowed upon him
the venia legendi in 1976. He has been many times research fellow of
German, Swiss and American scientific foundations. Since 1987 he is
corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He has extensively
published on political ecology, devolopment theories and cultural
traditions; books of him have appeared in Germany, Spain and Latin America
countries. His main research areas are the political tradition of
authoritarianism in an international comparative perspective and the
ambiguous role of material progress in Third World societies. He has also
elaborated a critical theory of modernization, which attempts to clarify
the complex relationship between normative development goals, collective
identity problems and dubious socio-economic results in the long run.
According to it, most modernization efforts in the Third World are viewed
as a second-class imitation of Western models, in which the revival of the
own cultural heritage has a basically ornamental function. He is one of
the very few intellectuals in Latin Amercia, who hold a skeptical opinion
on modernization, globalization, postmodernist tendencies and even
democratization drives. In 1999 / 2001 he was visiting professor at the
Zurich University (Switzerland). Since 2000 he is member of the Bolivian
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DEUTSCH
H.
C. F. Mansilla: geb. 1942 in Buenos Aires (Argentinien); bolivianischer und
argentinischer Staatsbürger. Studium der Politikwissenschaft und
Philosophie an der Freien Universität Berlin (1962-1973). Dipl.-Pol.
1968, Promotion zum Dr. Phil. 1973, Habilitation 1976. Seitdem als freier
Schritsteller in Bolivien tätig. 1999 + 2001 Gastprofessor am
soziologischen Institut der Universität Zürich.
Letzte
deutschsprachige Buchveröffentlichungen:
Die
Trugbilder der Entwicklung in der Dritten Welt. Elemente einer kritischen
Theorie der Modernisierung, Paderborn
etc.: Schoningh 1986; Ausdehnung staatlicher Funktionen un
Bürokratisierungstendenzen in Bolivien. Eine Studie über die politische
Kultur des Autoritarismus, Saarbrücken / Fort Lauderdale: Breitenbach
1987; Ursachen und Folgen politischer Gewalt in Kolumbien und Peru,
Frankfurt: Vervuert 1993; Harmoniebedürfnis und Verewigung von Macht.
Elemente einer kritischen Theorie der Herrschaft, Hamburg / Münster:
LIT–Verlag 1994; Zur Theorie der dauerhaften Entwicklung in
Lateinamerika. Eine neue Ideologie der Staatsbürokratie und der
herrschenden Eliten?, Eichstätt: Katholische Universität Eichstätt
2000. |
