Latin American And Latinx Philosophy: A Collaborative Introduction

✍ Scribed by Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr.

• Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Latin American and Latinx Philosophy: A Collaborative Introduction is a beginner’s guide to canonical texts in Latin American and Latinx philosophy, providing the non-specialist with necessary historical and philosophical context, and demonstrating their contemporary relevance. It is written in jargon-free prose for students and professors who are interested in the subject, but who don’t know where to begin. Each of the twelve chapters, written by a leading scholar in the field, examines influential texts that are readily available in English and introduces the reader to a period, topic, movement, or school that taken together provide a broad overview of the history, nature, scope, and value of Latin American and Latinx philosophy. Although this volume is primarily intended for the reader without a background in the Latin American and Latinx tradition, specialists will also benefit from its many novelties, including an introduction to Aztec ethics; a critique of “the Latino threat” narrative; the legacy of Latin American philosophy in the Chicano movement; an overview of Mexican existentialism, Liberation philosophy, and Latin American and Latinx feminisms; a philosophical critique of indigenism; a study of Latinx contributions to the philosophy of immigration; and an examination of the intersection of race and gender in Latinx identity.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
Four Defining Themes......Page 15
Note to Instructors......Page 19
Notes......Page 21
Bibliography......Page 23
Mesoamerica at Contact......Page 26
Mexica vs. Franciscan Understandings of Philosophy-cum-Religion,
Human Lifeways, and Ways of Being a Human in the World......Page 27
The Existential Condition of Humankind and Defining Problematic of Mexica Philosophy......Page 30
The Five Ages and Creation of Human Beings......Page 33
Some Comparisons......Page 42
Enacting Contemporary Indigenous Philosophy......Page 43
Notes......Page 44
Bibliography......Page 46
The Emergence of “The Indian Problem” during the Spanish
Conquest......Page 49
Aristotle’s Theory of Natural Slavery......Page 53
Sepúlveda: Democrates Segundo......Page 55
Las Casas: In Defense of the Indians......Page 57
Contemporary Relevance......Page 63
Notes......Page 66
Bibliography......Page 69
3. The Continental Struggle for Democracy: The American Wars of Independence as Experiments in Justice......Page 71
The Latinx Threat Narrative and the Continental Struggle for Democracy......Page 72
Declarations of Independence in the Americas......Page 75
The Congress of Panama and the Contradictions of U.S. American Democracy......Page 84
Notes......Page 87
Bibliography......Page 88
Auguste Comte: The French Founder of Positivism......Page 90
Gabino Barreda’s Positivism and the Mexican Education System......Page 92
The Evolving “Positivism” of Justo Sierra and the Científicos......Page 95
Mexico’s Athenaeum of Youth: More Anti-Porfirist than AntiPositivist......Page 99
Positivism and Jose Vasconcelos’ Raza Cósmica......Page 101
Positivism and Antonio Caso’s Reflections on Existence as Charity......Page 102
Chicanx Identity, the Chicano Movement, and Gloria Anzaldúa’s
Mestiza Consciousness......Page 106
Notes......Page 110
Bibliography......Page 111
5. The Philosophy of Mexican Culture......Page 113
Authentic Mexicanness......Page 114
A Clearly Defined National Character......Page 118
Mexican Humanism......Page 120
No Brands of Philosophy......Page 121
Frondizi......Page 122
Villegas......Page 123
The Theme of Ortega’s Time......Page 125
The Double Character of Culture......Page 126
Transforming Philosophy......Page 127
Conclusion......Page 129
Notes......Page 130
Bibliography......Page 131
The Existentialist Position......Page 133
The Arrival of Existentialism in Mexico......Page 134
Three Existentialist Themes in Uranga, Villoro, and Zea......Page 137
“Accidentality” and “Insufficiency”......Page 138
“Zozobra” and “Nepantla”......Page 140
Commitment and Responsibility......Page 142
Conclusion......Page 145
Notes......Page 147
Bibliography......Page 148
7. Liberation Philosophy......Page 150
Ideologization and the Social Function of Philosophy......Page 151
The Persistence of Coloniality......Page 154
Dussel’s Analectical Liberatory Philosophy......Page 159
Zea’s Existential-Phenomenological Contribution......Page 164
Conclusion: Latin American Philosophy as Liberation Philosophy......Page 168
Notes......Page 169
Bibliography......Page 171
Introduction......Page 174
Foundations of Latin American and Latinx Feminisms......Page 175
Latin American Feminist Ideas of the 20th Century......Page 179
U.S. Ch/Xicana and Latina/x Feminisms......Page 182
Conclusion......Page 188
Notes......Page 189
Bibliography......Page 191
9. Indigenism in Peru and Bolivia......Page 193
González Prada......Page 195
Mariátegui......Page 198
Fausto Reinaga......Page 202
Conclusion......Page 207
Notes......Page 208
Bibliography......Page 209
10. Latinx Philosophy and the Ethics of Migration......Page 211
Latinx Contributions to the Open-Borders Debate......Page 212
Latinx Approaches to Immigration Justice......Page 218
Conclusion......Page 227
Notes......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 230
11. Latinx Identity......Page 233
The Race-Ethnicity Debate......Page 234
The Debate Regarding “el género-gender”......Page 244
The Debate Regarding “Latinx-Latino/a”......Page 247
Notes......Page 251
Bibliography......Page 252
Introduction......Page 255
The Skeptics......Page 256
The Defenders......Page 264
Latinx Philosophy......Page 272
Notes......Page 275
Bibliography......Page 276
Index......Page 278

✦ Subjects

Philosophy, Latin American