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Mario Vargas Llosa offers a reflective intellectual memoir, mapping the liberal thinkers who influenced his ideas over the past fifty years. Rather than focusing on his personal history, the book examines the works of Adam Smith, José Ortega y Gasset, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, and Jean‑François Revel. These authors helped him recover a vision that values individual freedom, free expression, and democracy after a period of ideological disappointment and disorientation.
Through close readings of these thinkers, Llosa demonstrates how liberal thought provided a framework that counters the narratives of collective identity—be it tribe, nation, class, or party—and reinforces the primacy of individual agency.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Politics & Government/Political Theory
Authors: Mario Vargas Llosa
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