Rodolfo Kusch

Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

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Produktbeschreibung

A seminal philosophic work that endeavors to identify and recover indigenous styles of thinking--by an Argentine philosopher still almost unknown in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346418
• ISBN-10: 0822346419
• Artikelnr.: 28030662

Autorenporträt

Rodolfo Kusch studied philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and taught for many years at the Universidad de Salta in northern Argentina. He is the author of numerous books, including Esbozo de una antropología filosófica Americana, Geocultura del Hombre Americano, América Profunda, and la Seducción de la Barbarie.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations xi
Introduction: Immigrant Consciousness / Walter D. Mignolo xiii
Translators' Introduction lv
Prologue to the Third Edition lxxi
Prologue to the First Edition lxxv
1. Américan Thinking 1
2. Understanding 8
3. Limit 15
4. Knowledge 26
5. Ritual 34
6. The Theory of the Turn 41
7. Divine Teaching 52
8. Indigenous Logic 70
9. Symmetry and Truth 81
10. Salvation and Economy 89
11. Salvation and Solution 102
12. Popular Thinking 115
13. Seminal Thinking 124
14. Seminal Economy 135
15. Infantile Seminality 144
16. Thinking the "Así" 151
17. The Crossroads of Mere Estar 158
18. Recovering the Absolute 165
Notes 173
Bibliography 195
Index 203