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Philosophy
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Our America
A short political essay that the Cuban poet and independence leader wrote in New York and published in January 1891, first in La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York…
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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
A short book by the Brazilian Indigenous leader of the Krenak people, adapted from talks and published in Portuguese in 2019; Anthony Doyle's English translation appeared in 2020.…
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Ariel
A book-length essay by the Uruguayan critic, published in Montevideo in 1900 and dedicated to the youth of America. It is framed as the farewell lecture of an…
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The Falling Sky
The life story and thought of Davi Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman and spokesman from the Brazilian Amazon, subtitled Words of a Yanomami Shaman. It was composed from many…
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Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
A collection of seven essays, published in Lima in 1928 by the founder of the journal Amauta and of the Peruvian Socialist Party, which applies Marxist analysis to…
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Aztec Thought and Culture
A study by the Mexican historian, published in 1956 as La filosofía náhuatl estudiada en sus fuentes and translated by Jack Emory Davis in 1963 with the subtitle…
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The Latin American Mind
A history of ideas by the Mexican philosopher, first published in 1949 and translated into English in 1963 by James H. Abbott and Lowell Dunham. Zea studies the…
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Popol Vuh
The great sacred narrative of the K'iche' Maya of highland Guatemala, written down in the K'iche' language in Latin letters by anonymous nobles in the mid-sixteenth century, after…
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Is There a Philosophy in Our America?
A short book by the Peruvian philosopher, published in Mexico in 1968, that asks whether Spanish America has produced an original philosophy. It opens with a survey of…
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Women and Economics
A book-length essay, subtitled A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, by the American writer and lecturer best known…
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