Latin American Philosophy

Eduardo Mendieta teaches philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy and co-editor of Thinking from the Underside of History and Latin America and Postmodernity.

"A valuable introduction to the largely ignored field of Latin American philosophy . . . [It] outlines a novel approach to understanding the aimsnature, and function of Latin American philosophy. . . . Recommended"—Choice

• Preliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Eduardo MendietaPart 1. On the Historiography of Latin American Philosophy1. 20th Century Latin American Philosophy Enrique DusselPart 2. Can or Should There Be a Latin American Philosophy?2. Ethnic Philosophy: The Latin American Case Jorge Gracia3. Latin American Philosophy as Critical Ontology of the Present: Themes and Motifs for a "Critique of Latin American Reason" Santiago Castro-Gómez4. On Indigenous and Latin American Philosophy Walter MignoloPart 3. Neither Modern nor Postmodern: Postcolonial Globality5. Borges and Postmodernity Alfonso de Toro6. Modernism and Postmodern Discourse in the Brazilian Content Amós Nascimento7. Continental Philosophy and Postcolonial Subject Ofelia SchuttePart 4. (Re)Discovering the Political and Ethical in History8. On the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Chiapas María Herrera Lima9. Democratization in the Context of a Postmodern Culture Norbert Lechner10. On Citizenship: On the Garmmatology of the Body-Politic Beatriz González StephanContributorsIndex