Introduction to Latin American Philosophy

This introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the central topics in Latin American philosophy.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Setting the Scene: The Iberian Conquest; 2. Modest and Immodest Feminism; 3. The Authoritarian Republicanism of Bolívar; 4. The Liberal Republicanism of Sarmiento and Alberdi; 5. Home-Grown and Imported Positivism; 6. Martí's Liberal Anti-Positivism; 7. Utopian Latin Americanism: Arielism and Mestizofilia; 8. Soft and Hard Socialism; 9. Liberation Theology and Philosophy; 10. Skepticism and Anti-Skepticism about Latin American Philosophy; Glossary; References; Index of Names and Subjects.

About the author

Susana Nuccetelli is Professor of Philosophy at St Cloud State University, Minnesota. She is the author of Latin American Thought (2002) and co-author of Latin American Philosophy: An Introduction with Readings (2004). She co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy (with Ofelia Schutte and Otávio Bueno, 2009) and is a contributor to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Summary

This introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the central topics in Latin American philosophy. It explores not only the unique insights offered by Latin American thinkers into pre-established fields of Western philosophy, but also the many 'isms' developed as a direct result of Latin American thought.

Product details

• Authors: Susana Nuccetelli, Susana (St Cloud State University Nuccetelli, Nuccetelli Susana, Nuccetelli Susana Nuccetelli
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781107067646
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06764-6
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy; Cambridge Introductions to Phi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy