Foreword: A Principled Pessimist of the Left— Castro- Gómez’s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword: A Principled Pessimist of the Left— Castro- Gómez’s vii
4. Translator’s Note xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Acknowledgments xxi
7. Prologue to the Second Edition xxiii
8. Introduction: The Othering of Latin America and the Critique of the Critique of Colonial Reason xxvii
9. 1. POSTMODERNITY’S CHALLENGES TO LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY 1
10. 2. MODERNITY, RATIONALIZATION, AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN LATIN AMERICA 30
11. 3. POPULISM AND PHILOSOPHY 49
12. 4. LATIN AMERICA BEYOND THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY 79
13. 5. THE AESTHETICS OF THE BEAUTIFUL IN SPANISH AMERICAN MODERNISM 107
14. 6. POSTCOLONIAL REASON AND LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY 136
15. 7. THE BIRTH OF LATIN AMERICA AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM IN MEXICO 163
16. Appendix 1. From the History of Ideas to the Localized Genealogy of Practices 209
17. Appendix 2. Santiago Castro- Gómez’s Critique of Latin American Reason: Contemporary Provocations 246
18. Notes 269
19. Bibliography 289
20. Index 299