#latin-american-philosophy

¶ Salazar Bondy asked if there is a philosophy of our America. Over fifty years on, what’s the answer?

In 1968, the Peruvian philosopher Augusto Salazar Bondy published a short book with an uncomfortable title: ¿Existe una filosofía de nuestra América? His answer was, roughly, not yet. Latin American philosophy, he argued, had been imitative: each generation importing the latest European…