Agustín Cueva

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Agustín Cueva Dávila (born September 23, 1937 in Ibarra , † May 1, 1992 in Quito ) was an Ecuadorian sociologist, literary theorist and intellectual.

Life

Cueva came from an important intellectual family in Ecuador. His father Agustín Cueva Sanz (1872-1938) was a professor of sociology and law, several times a member of the Ecuadorian parliament and chairman of the Constituent Assembly in 1928 (convened by his cousin Isidro Ayora ). His grandfather Manuel Benigno Cueva (1843-1918) was a supporter of the Liberal Party Eloy Alfaros and as such chairman of the Constituent Assembly from 1896 and vice-president under Alfaro from 1897 to 1899.

Agustín Cueva Dávila studied social sciences at the Catholic University of Ecuador and received his doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was a professor in Quito , Concepción (Chile) and at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . His work is characterized by a critical Marxism and an interest in social struggles. He died of lung cancer at the age of 54.

Works

  • Entre la ira y la esperanza (Quito, 1967)
  • El desarrollo del capitalismo en América Latina -Premio Ensayo Editorial Siglo XXI- (México, 1977)
  • La teoría marxista (Quito, 1987)
  • El análisis posmarxista del estado latinoamericano (PDF; 466 kB), Cuadernos del Pensamiento Crítico Latinoamericano, No. 2, November 29, 2007, pp. 1-4.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel, Agustín Cueva Sanz in: Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador, Volume 13, Guayaquil 1987ff.
  2. ↑ Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel, Agustín Cueva Dávila , in Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador , Volume 15
personal data
SURNAME Cueva, Agustin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cueva Dávila, Agustín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ecuadorian sociologist, literary theorist and intellectual
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Ibarra
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1992
Place of death Quito