Misplaced Ideas?

Elías J. Palti is Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Principal Researcher at the CONICET, Argentina. He is the author of fourteen books, including An Archaeology of the Political Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Columbia University Press, 2017). He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas. Palti received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and the Pensamiento de América "Leopoldo Zea" Prize in 2021, conferred by the Pan American Institute of Geography and History at the Organization of American States (OAS). He served as the Director of the Center for Intellectual History at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina from 2016 to 2022.

Elías Palti has presented the most complete critique of Latin American philosophy written in the last twenty years. In his new book, the Argentine historian extends his analysis in An Archeology of the Political to the intellectual history of twentieth century Latin American thought. This is a masterful exercise that marks a before and after in research on the subject.

• Acknowledgements Prologue: The Laughter of the Thracian Girl: For an Intellectual History of Latin American Thought 1) The History of the "History of Ideas" in Latin America and Its Critics Part 1: Theoretical and Methodological Issues Introduction: The Emergence of Latin American Radicalism: A Case of Inverted Orientalism? 2) Latin American Philosophy I: The Historicist Line in the Genealogical Looking Glass 3) Latin American Philosophy II: The Phenomenological Line and the Metaphysical Turn 4) Revisiting the Topic of "Misplaced Ideas": Dependency Theory and Ideological Production in the Periphery Part 2: Historiographical Approaches Introduction: The Syndrome of Alphonse the Wise: Teleologism and Normativism in the History of Ideas 5) Beyond the History of Ideas: On the "Ideological Origins" of the Revolution of Independence 6) From Tradition to Modernity?: Revisionism and Political-Intellectual History Conclusion: From the History of Models to the History of Problems BibliographyIndex