2nd Edition
Latin American and Latinx Philosophy A Collaborative Introduction
List of Contributors
Introduction -- Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr.
1. Philosophy without Europe -- James Maffie
2. “The Indian Problem”: Conquest and the Valladolid Debate -- Alejandro Santana
3. “To Put Objects of Beauty in My Mind”: Sor Juana’s Baroque Philosophy -- Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa and Sergio Gallegos-Ordorica
4. The Continental Struggle for Democracy: The American Wars of Independence as Experiments in Justice -- Jose-Antonio Orosco
5. Nation-Building through Education: Positivism and Its Transformations in Mexico -- Alexander V. Stehn
6. The Philosophy of Mexican Culture -- Robert Eli Sanchez Jr.
7. Spanish Transterrados in Hispanic America -- Aurelia Valero Pie and Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr.
8. Mexican Existentialism -- Carlos Alberto Sánchez
9. Liberation Philosophy -- Grant Silva
10. Latin American and Latinx Feminisms -- Stephanie Rivera Berruz
11. Indigenism in Peru and Bolivia -- Kim Díaz
12. Caribbean Philosophy -- Kiesha M. Martin
13. Latinx Philosophy and the Ethics of Migration -- José Jorge Mendoza
14. Latinx Identity -- Andrea J. Pitts
15. Metaphilosophy: Defining Latin American and Latinx Philosophy -- Lori Gallegos de Castillo and Francisco Gallegos
Glossary
Discussion Questions
Biography
Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Occidental College. He specializes in Mexican philosophy and is the co-editor of Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: Essential Readings (2017) and the editor and translator of Samuel Ramos’s Toward a New Humanism and Related Writings (2025).
