%0 Journal Article %T Neil Larsen: Latinamericanism within the marxist tradition of literary aesthetics %A Fernando G¨®mez Herrero %J Historia Actual Online %D 2004 %I Asociati¨®n de Historia Actual %X This interview is about Professor Neil Larsen¡¯s biography, since his formative years, focussed in his years in the University of Minnesota, during the Reagan¡¯s administration. It presents a critical analysis of the changes in the American intellectual context during the 80¡¯s, and emphasizes the impoverishment and ¡®domestication¡¯ of intellectual life in the United States. On the contrary, Larsen defends the engagement with Lukacs, as necessary to preserve the tradition of the Marxist literary aesthetics. %K latinamericanism %K literature %K Lucaks %K marxist tradition %K Neil Larsen %U http://historia-actual.org/Publicaciones/index.php/haol/article/view/52