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Informationen zum Autor Rodolfo Kusch studied philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and taught for many years at the Universidad de Salta in northern Argentina. He is the author of numerous books, including Esbozo de una antropología filosófica Americana, Geocultura del Hombre Americano, América Profunda, and la Seducción de la Barbarie. Klappentext A seminal philosophic work that endeavors to identify and recover indigenous styles of thinking--by an Argentine philosopher still almost unknown in the United States. Zusammenfassung An influential work originally published in Mexico in 1970; the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch seeks to identify and recover indigenous and popular ways of thinking devalued since colonization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations xi Introduction: Immigrant Consciousness / Walter D. Mignolo xiii Translators' Introduction lv Prologue to the Third Edition lxxi Prologue to the First Edition lxxv 1. Américan Thinking 1 2. Understanding 8 3. Limit 15 4. Knowledge 26 5. Ritual 34 6. The Theory of the Turn 41 7. Divine Teaching 52 8. Indigenous Logic 70 9. Symmetry and Truth 81 10. Salvation and Economy 89 11. Salvation and Solution 102 12. Popular Thinking 115 13. Seminal Thinking 124 14. Seminal Economy 135 15. Infantile Seminality 144 16. Thinking the "Así" 151 17. The Crossroads of Mere Estar 158 18. Recovering the Absolute 165 Notes 173 Bibliography 195 Index 203
