Building Bridges Between Indian Philosophy and Latin American Philosophy

Kim Díaz shares Philosophy with her students at El Paso Community College. She studies Latin American & Chicanx Philosophy, Indian, Buddhist and Taoist Philosophies. She is a coeditor of the Philosophy of the Americas Reader: From the Popol Vuh to the Present (2021).Ajay Kumar Verma is a Professor of Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His interests include Indian Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy and Religion. He is the author of From Method to Playfulness to Chaos: A Critique of Postmodernism (2010) and co-editor of Buddha and His Dhamma: A Critical Edition (2011).Jules Simon is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso and specializes in ethics, aesthetics, religion, and social-political philosophy. He has authored Art and Responsibility: A Phenomenology of the Diverging Paths of Rosenzweig and Heidegger (2011) and co-edited The Thought and Social Engagement in the Mexican-American Philosophy of John H. Haddox (2010).

• Introduction: Building Bridges Part I: Perspectives from Indian Philosophy 1. Language, Tradition and Authority in Classical Indian Philosophy 2. Two centuries of Indology and Internal Evidence of the Rgveda: Some Questions 3. The Plight of Academic Philosophy in India 4. Women in Advaita: Three Historical Women Advaitins of Tamil Nadu: A Brief Study 5. Feminist Churning in Contemporary India 6. Women and Desire in Buddhism Part II: Perspectives from Latin American Philosophy 7. Lessons from Zapatista Luis Villoro on how the Left can be become corrupted and how to avoid it? 8. Difference Logic ∂∫: An Intersectional Logic for Human Learning 9. Border Narratives: Towards a Methodology of Lived Experiences 10. Border Identities and the Problem of Representation: The Power of Testimonios to Create Filósofas 11. Political Identity and Cultural Identity: Latin America’s dispensable dilemma 12. Guatemala’s Ethnic Question in the Eyes of Three Philosophers 13. Love in Cultivating Latinx Communities Part III: Bridges Between Latin American and Indian Philosophy 14. Decolonization of Epistemology in India and Latin America: Posing some Contrasts 15. Sustainability in India Addressed by the Dialogical Approach of Paulo Freire 16. Ismael Quiles: A Bridge Between Latin America and Asia 17. Octavio Paz and the city: from Mexico City to New Delhi and back again 18. Latin American Philosophy and Mindfulness: Transforming the U.S. Justice System