Download or read book Cr tica de la raz n latinoamericana written by Santiago Castro-Gómez and published by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro fue publicado en 1996 y es un clásico de los estudios latinoamericanos. El autor hace un análisis de las posturas modernas y posmodernas frente a temas que atraviesan el continente, como la identidad, la herencia colonial y la cultura popular. Además hace un recuento de los primeros pensadores que, desde México, aportaron al campo en la primera mitad del siglo XX. La segunda edición, publicada por la Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana en el 2011, trae también una entrevista con el autor.

Download or read book Latin American Philosophy written by Eduardo Mendieta and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in this book make it elegantly clear that there is a vigorous and rigorous Latin American philosophy . . . and that others dismiss it at their peril." —Mario Sáenz The ten essays in this lively anthology move beyond a purely historical consideration of Latin American philosophy to cover recent developments in political and social philosophy as well as innovations in the reception of key philosophical figures from the European Continental tradition. Topics such as indigenous philosophy, multiculturalism, the philosophy of race, democracy, postmodernity, the role of women, and the position of Latin America and Latin Americans in a global age are explored by notable philosophers from the region. An introduction by Eduardo Mendieta examines recent trends and points to the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions that have inspired the discipline. Latin American Philosophy brings English-speaking readers up to date with recent scholarship and points to promising new directions.

Download or read book Critique of Latin American Reason written by Santiago Castro-Gómez and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have come out of South America in recent decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of the foundational schools of thought in Latin American philosophy and critical theory. Santiago Castro-Gómez argues that “Latin America” is not so much a geographical entity, a culture, or a place, but rather an object of knowledge produced by a family of discourses in the humanities that are inseparably linked to colonial power relationships. Using the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault, he analyzes the political, literary, and philosophical discourses and modes of power that have contributed to the making of “Latin America.” Castro-Gómez examines the views of a wide range of Latin American thinkers on modernity, postmodernity, identity, colonial history, and literature, also considering how these questions have intersected with popular culture. His critique spans Central and South America, and it also implicates broader and protracted global processes. This book presents this groundbreaking work of contemporary critical theory in English translation for the first time. It features a foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff, a new preface by the author, and an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta situating Castro-Gómez’s thought in the context of critical theory in Latin America and the Global South. Two appendixes feature an interview with Castro-Gómez that sheds light on the book’s composition and short provocations responding to each chapter from a multidisciplinary forum of contemporary scholars who resituate the work within a range of perspectives including feminist, Francophone African, and decolonial Black political thought.

Download or read book Cr tica de la raz n cr tica written by Jonathan Ramos and published by Sekotia. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Ramos, a través de esta obra, ofrece la información necesaria para conocer y comprender el entramado político, económico y social que se ha gestado desde la antigüedad hasta nuestros días, conformado por un pensamiento único y débil. Ofrece una visión serena y explica que “la muerte de Dios”, más bien provocó la muerte del hombre al aniquilar conceptos como “dignidad humana” para ser solo consumidor de placeres y bienes aparentes, con la consecuente pérdida del sentido de la vida, la belleza y la bondad. ¿Por qué “la diosa razón” no es suficiente para mantener vivo al ser humano? ¿Qué sucedió al trasladar la teología luterana a la vida política y social? El texto, minuciosamente elaborado, deja claro cómo han influido a lo largo del tiempo, las críticas y propuestas de Marx y Nietzsche en el comportamiento humano, pero también cómo sus escritos han sido manipulados en la práctica y trasladados a circunstancias ajenas a las cuestiones concretas que les inspiraron en su época. También señala la influencia de Hobbes y Hegel; la ligereza con la que se ha dado asentimiento a autores como Foucault y Derrida; el regreso de los sofistas y los estragos de los imperialismos de toda índole, sean religión-estado o autoritarismos socialistas y liberales. Concluye con lo que podemos considerar consecuencias del Progresismo: Posthumanismo, Tranhumanismo, neo-nihilismo, y neo-cinismo. Cataloga los orígenes de las guerras, las migraciones, la trata de personas, la pobreza extrema, las ideologías desfragmentadoras como parte de la crisis decadente de las últimas décadas. Frente a este catálogo de deconstrucción social, Ramos ahonda en los fundamentos metafísicos de la antropología filosófica para defender la dignidad humana, el orden como custodio del ser ontológico de la persona y la verdad para el diálogo social, entre otros aspectos. Es una obra que pone en diálogo a filósofos de todos los tiempos a los enfrenta con situaciones actuales del siglo XXI, como economía, política, sociología, antropología, medicina, investigación científica, neurociencias, tecnología, ciberespacio, centrando la trascendencia con perspectiva de comunidad. “Crítica de la razón crítica”, debe ser leída para comprender las causas que generan la incertidumbre de hoy, es decir, el desconcierto existencialista, ya sea global o local. «El progresismo es hoy la ideología oficial del sistema-mundo. El progresismo es obsolescencia programada; es moda, industria cultural y farándula. De ahí que hoy podamos construir nuestro propio mundo, e incluso aquello que somos, simplemente comprando». Del prólogo de Agustín Laje

Download or read book Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority written by Alejandro A. Vallega and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines developments in gender studies, race theory, postcolonial theory, and the legacy of cultural dependency in light of the Latin American experience. He explores Latin America's engagement with contemporary problems in Western philosophy and describes the transformative impact of this encounter on contemporary thought.

Download or read book Misplaced Ideas written by Elías J Palti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a Latin American thought? What distinguishes it from the thought of other regions, particularly from European thought? What are its main expressions in political, cultural, and social life? How has it evolved historically? As the Mexican philosopher Leopoldo Zea Aguilar stated: "hardly any other society has so zealously sought for the features of its own identity." In Misplaced Ideas?, Elías J. Palti examines how Latin American identity has been conceived across different epochs and diverse conceptual contexts. Palti approaches these ideas from a historical-intellectual perspective, unraveling the theoretical foundations on which the very interrogation on Latin American identity has been forumulated and re-formulated. While he does not endorse or refute any particular perspective, Palti discloses the historical and contingent nature of their foundations. Ultimately, Misplaced Ideas? highlights the problematic dynamics of the circulation of ideas in peripheral regions of Western culture, which raises, in turn, broader theoretical questions regarding the ways of approaching complex historical-intellectual processes.

Download or read book Coloniality at Large written by Mabel Moraña and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art anthology of postcolonial theory and practice in the Latin American context.

Download or read book Teor a y cr tica del pensamiento latinoamericano written by Arturo Andrés Roig and published by Fondo de Cultura Economica USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los filosofos latinoamericanos han reconocido desde siempre su comopromiso con la realidad, tal como lo hizo Esteban Echeverria en 1837, cuando confirmo como proposito del pensar filosofico la busqueda "de la verdad que resulte de los hechos de nuestra historia y del reconocimiento pleno de las costumbres y del espiritu de la nacion." Asi, Arturo Andres Roig examina el despuntar y el devenir de la filosofia de nuestras naciones y confronta los logros y los accidentes de la filosofia latinoamericana.

Download or read book Philosophizing the Americas written by Jacoby Adeshei Carter and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy, the volume examines the full range of traditions that have, separately and in conversation with each other, worked through how philosophy in both establishes itself in the Americas and engages with the world from which it emerges. The book traces a range of questions, from the history of philosophy in the Americas to philosophical questions of race, feminism, racial eliminativism, creolization, epistemology, coloniality, aesthetics, and literature. The essays place an impressive range of philosophical traditions and figures into dialogue with one another: some familiar, such as José Martí, Sylvia Wynter, Martin R. Delany, José Vasconcelos, Alain Locke, as well as such less familiar thinkers as Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Hilda Hilst, and George Lamming. In each chapter, the contributors find fascinating and productive matrices of tension or convergence in works throughout the Americas. The result is an original and important contribution to knowledge that introduces readers from various disciplines to unfamiliar yet compelling ideas and considers familiar texts from novel and prescient perspectives. Philosophizing the Americas stands alone as a representation of current scholarly debates in the field of inter-American philosophy. Contributors: Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Nadia Celis, Tommy J. Curry, Hernando A. Estévez, Daniel Fryer, James B. Haile III, Chike Jeffers, Lee A. McBride III, Michael Monahan, Adriana Novoa, Susana Nuccetelli, Andrea J. Pitts, Dwayne A. Tunstall, and Alejandro A. Vallega

Download or read book Experimentalisms in Practice written by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks. Challenging the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives, contributors take a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin@ and Latin American music traditions conceived or perceived as experimental. The conversation takes as starting point the 1960s, a decade that marks a crucial political and epistemological moment for Latin America; militant and committed aesthetic practices resonated with this moment, resulting in a multiplicity of artistic and musical experimental expressions. Experimentalisms in Practice responds to recent efforts to reframe and reconceptualize the study of experimental music in terms of epistemological perspective and geographic scope, while also engaging traditional scholarship. This book contributes to the current conversations about music experimentalism while providing new points of entry to further reevaluate the field.

Download or read book Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes written by Anders Burman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes: Ritual Practice and Activism explores how Evo Morales’s victory in the 2005 Bolivian presidential elections led to indigeneity as the core of decolonization politics. Anders Burman analyzes how indigenous Aymara ritual specialists are essential in representing this indigeneity in official state ceremony and in legitimizing the president’s role as “the indigenous president.” This book goes behind the scenes of state-sponsored multiculturalist ritual practices and explores the political, spiritual and existential dimensions underpinning them.

Download or read book Critical Theory of Coloniality written by Paulo Henrique Martins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North. CTC expresses the emergence and historical actuality of a set of intellectual fields aimed at denouncing domination and promoting emancipatory ideas at the borders of colonial capitalism. The book argues that the actuality of the CTC relies on the importance of valuing theoretical and methodological pluralism in the context of the necessary redefinition of the directions of global society. It reveals a plural reflection of scientific, moral, and aesthetic character in different areas of former planetary colonisation such as Asia, Africa, and America but also on the borders of Europe. This book is aimed at researchers and students in the social sciences as well as in interdisciplinary studies. It is attractive to those who are interested in the plural development of theoretical criticism outside the European universe and who seek to understand how capitalist power has metamorphosed with planetary coloniality. Considering this book implies important reflections on topics such as development, modernity, tradition, imperialism, dependency, and democracy, it is interesting to specialists in development issues, international relations, and policymakers.

Download or read book Globalization and the Decolonial Option written by Walter D. Mignolo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications. Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards an-other rationality that puts life first and that places institutions at its service, rather than the other way around. The volume is profoundly inter- and trans-disciplinary, with authors writing from many intellectual, transdisciplinary, and institutional spaces. This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

Download or read book Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis written by Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores possibility of constructing a political outcome from the theory of the early years of the Frankfurt School, countering the commonly-made criticism that critical theory is highly speculative. With chapters exploring the work of figures central to the Frankfurt School, including Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas and Honneth, Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis reveals that it is only with a fixed and dogmatic model of politics that critical theory is incompatible, and that it can in fact yield a rich variety of political models, ranging from new forms of Marxism to more contemporary ’dialogical’ models centred on the politics of identity. With attention to new ways of contrasting alienation and reification in contemporary forms of social organisation, this book demonstrates that the thought of the Frankfurt school can in fact be an invaluable tool not only for developing a critique of advanced capitalism, but also for originating alternative models of political praxis. As such, it will appeal to scholars of social and political theory, with interests in classical sociological thought and continental philosophy.

Download or read book Intersectional Colonialities written by Robel Afeworki Abay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rich synthesis of empirical research and theoretical engagements with questions of disability across different practices of colonialism as historically defined – post/de/anti/settler colonialism. It synthesises, critiques, and expands the boundaries of existing disability research which has been undertaken within different colonial contexts through the rich examination of recent empirical work mapping across disability and its intersectional colonialities. Filling an existing gap within the international literature through embedding the importance of grounding these within scholarly debates of colonialism, it empirically demonstrates the significance of disability for the broader scholarly fields of postcolonial, decolonial, and intersectional theories. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, critical studies, sociology of race and ethic relations, intersectionality, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and human geography.

Download or read book Ethics of Liberation written by Enrique Dussel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in English for the first time, a masterwork by Enrique Dussel, one of the world's foremost philosophers, and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.

Download or read book Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing seeks to ascertain the relationship obtaining between the specific form postmodernism assumes in a given culture, and the national narrative in which that culture traditionally recognizes itself. Theo D’haen provides a general introduction to the issue of “cultural identity and postmodern writing.” Jos Joosten and Thomas Vaessens take a look at Dutch literature, and particular Dutch poetry, in relation to “postmodernism.” Robert Haak and Andrea Kunne do the same with regard to, respectively, German and Austrian literature, while Roel Daamen turns to Scottish literature. Patricia Krus discusses postmodernism in relation to Caribbean literature, and Kristian van Haesendonck and Nanne Timmer turn their attention to Puerto Rican and Cuban literature, while Adriana Churampi deals with Peruvian literature. Finally, Markha Valenta investigates the roots of the postmodernism debate in the United States. This volume is of interest to all students and scholars of modern and contemporary literature, and to anyone interested in issues of identity as linked to matters of culture.