The Role Of History In Latin American Philosophy - Contemporary Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is the coeditor (with Arleen Salles) of The Role of History in Latin American Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives and the translator of Manfred Frank's The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism , both also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext This book brings the history of Latin American philosophy to an English-speaking audience through the prominent voices of Mauricio Beuchot. Horacio Cerutti-Guldberg! Maria Luisa Femenias! Jorge J.E. Gracia! Oscar R. Marti! Leon Olive! Carlos Pereda! and Eduardo Rabossi. They argue that Spanish is not a philosophically irrelevant language and that there are original positions to be found in the work of Latin American philosophers. Part I of the book looks at why the history philosophy has not developed in Latin America. A range of theoretical issues are explored! each focusing on specific problems that have hundred the development of a solid history. Part II details the complex task of writing a history of philosophy for a region still haunted by the specter of colonialism.

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• Authors: Arleen L. F. (EDT)/ Millan-Zaibert Salles
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Millan (Editor), Elizabeth Millán (Editor), Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert (Editor), Arleen Salles (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2005
• EAN: 9780791464274
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6427-4
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Suny Latin American and Iberia
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy