from Part I - Historiography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2025
Deploying the spatial metaphors that are constitutive of a morphological approach, we may note that, so far, our effort to adumbrate the shape of revolution in Cuba has operated in two dimensions. One, which may be thought of as vertical, has thematized the revolution in relation to the person. In view of its totalizing, all-containing ambitions, how does the revolution encompass people? How deep does that run? Having conceptualized totalization and containment as a figure/ground reversal between life and revolution, with the revolution taking on the position of transcendental condition for life itself, the core of our answer has been the distinction between role and person. Realizing itself above all through the state, the revolution is able to encompass people insofar as they devote parts of themselves to its state-designated roles.
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