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Book SynopsisThrough an examination of philosopher Leopoldo Zea's historicist phenomenology, Mario Saenz offers insights into the role of Mexican intellectuals in the creation of a Latin American "philosophy of liberation". He places Zea and his contemporaries within the context of post-revolutionary Mexico.
Trade ReviewSáenz examines some important philosophical issues that have been fundamental to Latin American thinkers since their countries obtained political independence in the early nineteenth century. * CHOICE *
This book offers us the framework through which we can legitimately raise the question of the identity of Latin America within the United States. . . . Sáenz's book should spur Anglophone readers to take a serious view of Latin American intellectual history. * Encounter: Education For Meaning & Social Justice *
Issues that Anglo-American philosophy is just beginning to address. . . have been addressed by many Latin American philosophers for several generations. Sáenz's analysis and evaluation of the Latin American traditions of thought on these topics will be an invaluable service for Anglophone philosophers, and will provide a new model for reading philosophy within a fully articulated historical sense. -- Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Meaning of Identity: A Brief Excursion Toward Its DIfference in the History of Philosophy of History Chapter 3 Leopoldo Zea and the Latin American Philosophy of History Chapter 4 Zea's Historicism and the Romantic and Positivist Negations of the "Past" Chapter 5 Zea's Conception of the Assumptive Project and Libaration Chapter 6 Mestizaje from Above or Mestizaje from Below
