Misplaced Ideas?
Political-Intellectual History in Latin America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 June 2024
- ISBN 9780197774946
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 150x226x15 mm
- Weight 318 g
- Language English 497
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Elías Palti has presented the most complete critique of Latin American philosophy written in the last twenty years. In his new book, the Argentine historian extends his analysis in An Archeology of the Political to the intellectual history of twentieth century Latin American thought. This is a masterful exercise that marks a before and after in research on the subject.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Prologue: The Laughter of the Thracian Girl: For an Intellectual History of Latin American Thought
1) The History of the "History of Ideas" in Latin America and Its Critics
Part 1: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Introduction: The Emergence of Latin American Radicalism: A Case of Inverted Orientalism?
2) Latin American Philosophy I: The Historicist Line in the Genealogical Looking Glass
3) Latin American Philosophy II: The Phenomenological Line and the Metaphysical Turn
4) Revisiting the Topic of "Misplaced Ideas": Dependency Theory and Ideological Production in the Periphery
Part 2: Historiographical Approaches
Introduction: The Syndrome of Alphonse the Wise: Teleologism and Normativism in the History of Ideas
5) Beyond the History of Ideas: On the "Ideological Origins" of the Revolution of Independence
6) From Tradition to Modernity?: Revisionism and Political-Intellectual History
Conclusion: From the History of Models to the History of Problems
Bibliography
Index
