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The Call of the Tribe


A work of Non-fiction


Subgenres:

  • Intellectual Autobiography,
  • Political Philosophy,
  • Liberalism
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  • Intellectual journeys through liberal philosophy and political thought
  • Personal reflections on how classic thinkers shape modern beliefs
Publisher Description

The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable “call of the tribe.” This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable project.

In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The works of Adam Smith, José Ortega y Gasset, Friedrich A. Hayek, Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, and Jean-François Revel helped the author enormously during those uneasy years. They showed him another school of thought, one that placed the individual before the tribe, nation, class, or party and defended freedom of expression as a fundamental value for the exercise of democracy.

The Call of the Tribe documents Vargas Llosa’s engagement with their work and charts the evolution of his personal ideology.

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