On Eurocentrism And Laziness: The Thought of José Rizal

The idea of sociology in an Asian context was first suggested in the work of the Philippines’ national hero, the writer and agitator José Rizal, who paid for his revolutionary insights with his life. Professor Syed Farid Alatas finds contemporary meaning in Rizal’s penetrating analysis of Filipino society under the Spanish at the end of the 19th century.

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