Misplaced Ideas?
Political-Intellectual History in Latin America
Published on 12. March 2024
225 pages
978-0-19-755666-5 (ISBN)
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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.
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Elías 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 América "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.
Content
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
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