Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy: Beyond Redemption

222 Pages·2019·4.322 MB·English

by  Omar Rivera

DELIMITATIONS OF
LATIN AMERICAN
PHILOSOPHY
World Philosophies
Bret W. Davis, D. A. Masolo, and
Alejandro Vallega, editors
DELIMITATIONS OF
LATIN AMERICAN
PHILOSOPHY
Beyond Redemption
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OMAR RIVERA
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Para Miguel y Violeta

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Pachakuti 1
1. Rapture: A “Contextual” and Redemptive
Reading of Bolívar 13
2. Displacement: Spatializing Martí’s
“Nuestra América” 38
3. Dissemination: Logics of Redemption in
Mariátegui’s Seven Essays 66
4. Liminalities: Schutte’s Transcultural Reading
of Mariátegui 97
5. Representation: Mariátegui’s and Lugones’s
Invisibilities 119
6. Aesthetic Discipline: Mariátegui through Quijano and
Flores Galindo 141
Conclusion: Delimitations 171
Bibliography 185
Index 199

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
it’s been difficult to write a book that is not rooted in my formal phil-
osophical education but, rather, in a set of pressing questions that emerged
while growing up in Lima, Peru, and becoming an adult as a Latino in the
United States. For this reason, the encouragement of philosophers that I deeply
admire, including Alejandro Vallega, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Charles Scott,
Nancy Tuana, Linda Martín Alcoff, Eduardo Mendieta, and Ofelia Schutte,
has been invaluable for the completion of this project. I am grateful to have
been able to teach classes in Latin American philosophy at the University of
Wisconsin–La Crosse and Southwestern University when such courses were
almost unheard of in philosophy departments. This provided me the oppor-
tunity to learn with my students. In terms of this book, I want to thank Aaron
Jimenez and Cat Kelly, both Southwestern students, who helped me with edit-
ing and research. I have been fortunate to receive grants and other kinds of
support that have helped me finish this work. In particular, UW–L awarded
me a Faculty Research Grant and an International Development Grant, and
Southwestern granted me a Junior Sabbatical. I made the final revisions while
being an ACLS-Burkhardt Fellow at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies
and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin.
I am especially thankful to Alejandro, who has been a defining presence dur-
ing my philosophical trajectory since graduating college as well as an incredible
friend. And I am above all thankful to Christina. Without her infinite patience,
encouragement, and companionship I would not have been able to embark on
this philosophical path.
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