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Misplaced Ideas?: Political-Intellectual History in Latin America

Misplaced Ideas?: Political-Intellectual History in Latin America

Palti, Elías J.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Comparative Political Theory

General Latin American HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0197774946
ISBN13: 9780197774946
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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