Renato Constantino’s false choices - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
By John Nery
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:40:00 06/15/2010
Filed Under: history, Heroism
"The classic critique of Rizal, whose 149th birthday we mark on Saturday, has itself become venerable. Renato Constantino’s “Veneration without Understanding” was the astounding Rizal Day Lecture of 1969, over 40 years ago. In my view, it does not fare as well as any of Rizal’s key writings. But it continues to be a popular read, and is sometimes used to punctuate, or even stop, a discussion. Everything that a genuine nationalist ought to know about Rizal, I can remember a friend saying, is in Constantino."
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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