Introduction to Latin American Philosophy - Contemporary Topics

The main goal of this course is to familiarize students with a distinct philosophical corpus closely linked to the postcolonial conditions of cultural production in the Latin American region. The selected works will expose the connections between as socio- political reflection and intellectual development, and the characteristics of "situated knowledge" related to questions of coloniality, interculturality, and decolonization. Different approaches to transcendental issues, to questions of temporality, subjectivity and Being, will be developed vis a vis diverse conceptions of historicity, positionality, power and resistance. Factors of race, gender, inequality and cultural diversity will be discussed as part of the introduction of issues such as indigeneity, miscegenation, creolization, archipelagic thought, and the like. Some of the authors to be studies in the course are: Leopoldo Zea, Enrique Dussel, Santiago Castro Gomez, Nelson Maldonado Torres, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Walter Mignolo, Anibal Quijano, Bolivar Echeverria, Sylvia Wynter, Rita Segato, Maria Lugones, et al.

Course Attributes: EN H; AS HUM; AS LCD; FA HUM; AR HUM; BU Hum; BU IS

Introduction to Latin American Philosophy - Contemporary Topics

PHILOSOPHY 4238

Section 01