{"product_id":"alternating-current-9781628725315","title":"Alternating Current","description":"In its front-page review of \u003ci\u003eAlternating Current\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e called Octavio Paz \"an intellectual literary one-man band\" for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and Mexican art and history and buttressed by readings of writers from Mexican poet Luis Cernuda to D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, André Breton, and Carlos Fuentes. Part 2 deals with themes such as Western individualism versus plurality and flux in Eastern philosophy, atheism versus belief, nihilism, liberated man, and versions of paradise. In Part 3, Paz writes of politics and ethics in essays on revolt and revolution, existentialism, Marxism, the third world, and the new face of Latin America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA scintillating thinker and a prescient voice on emerging world culture, Paz reveals himself here as \"a man of electrical passions, paradoxical visions, alternating currents of thoughts, and feeling that runs hot but never cold\" (\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003ci\u003e). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628725315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Octavio Paz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52051761496245,"sku":"9781628725315","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bd5b46c3-686d-4689-9b49-578ac9cc591a.jpg?v=1764047837","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alternating-current-9781628725315","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}