Elías J. Palti

Misplaced Ideas? (eBook, ePUB)

Political-Intellectual History in Latin America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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?, El?as 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197556665
• Artikelnr.: 70758963

Autorenporträt

El?as J. Palti is Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Principal Researcher at the CONICET, Argentina. He is the author of fourteen books, including An Archaeology of the Political Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Columbia University Press, 2017). He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas. Palti received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and the Pensamiento de Am?rica "Leopoldo Zea" Prize in 2021, conferred by the Pan American Institute of Geography and History at the Organization of American States (OAS). He served as the Director of the Center for Intellectual History at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina from 2016 to 2022.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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