INSIGHT & FORESIGHT. Selected Excerpts annotated by Luis R. Mouricio.

by Renato Constantino

This volume represents another aspect of Renato Constantino's writing career. The extended essays in the book consist of selections excerpted from his columns and articles, lectures, papers, and addresses which analyze issues and problems of Philippine society. Despite multiplicity of subjects discussed, continuity is provided by the writer's consistently nationalist, anti-imperialist approach. Prof. Constantino's latest book is A Past Revisited which offers a new interpretation of Philippine history. This book now has an american edition published by Monthly Review Press of New York. Keiso ShoboCo., Ltd. o Japan is coming out with a collection of Constantino's essays in mid-1977 to be followed by a Japanese translation of A Past Revisited. Constantino has recently put out two new Global Corporations and the Transfer of Technology and Westernizing Factors in the Philippines. In 1976, he was visiting professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and visiting lecturer at the University of Lund, Sweden. The sequel to A Past Revisited, The Continuing Past, is now in its final stages of preparation. Constantino is a professional lecturer in the Department of Political Science of the University of the Philippines.

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First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Karlo Mikhail · Rating 4 out of 5]

The way the selected excerpts were stitched together into "essays" leaves much to be desired. Not the best of Constantino, but is still sharp, incisive, and classic Constantino.