By Eduardo Mendieta
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78. See Leopoldo Zea, Dos etapas del pensamiento en Hispanoamérica: del romanticismo al positivismo (Mexico City: Colegio de México, 1949); idem, La filosofía en México (Mexico City: Libro Mexicano 1955); idem, The Latin American Mind (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963). 79. –Oct. 1992): 203–218. 80. See L. Zea, La filosofía latinoamericana como filosofía sin más (Mexico City: Siglos XXI, 1969), and Filosofía de la Historia Americana (Mexico City: FCE, 1978). 81. To a certain extent, Emilio Uranga in Análysis del ser del mexicano (Mexico: Porrúa, 1952), in which he defined Mexican being by its “radical ontological insufficiency,” had already closed the path toward ontological analysis of the American being.
On the concept of “recognition,” see 106. 86. See Villegas, Panorama de la filosofía; Miró Quesada, Proyecto y realización, 184ff. 87. , El análisis filosófico en América Latina (Mexico City: FCE, 1985). 88. Note that rigor is desired in the linguistic apparatus but not in the socio-historical apparatus (which is another epistemological horizon that these philosophers do not attempt to broaden). 89. See Sobrevilla, Repensando la tradición nacional I, 607–854. 90. See Francisco Miró Quesada, “Outline of My Philosophical Position,” Southern Philosopher 2 (1953): 1–5; idem, “La filosofía como actividad racional,” Philosophische Selbstdarstellunge (1986): 195–203.
1. See the bibliography, section 1. 2. See F. Romero, Teoría del hombre (Buenos Aires: Losada, 1952). The full name, nationality, dates of birth and death (if it has taken place), and principal works of the Latin American philosophers named in the text can be found in the chronology and/or in the bibliography at the end of this chapter. 3. Francisco Miró Quesada, Despertar y proyecto del filosofar latinoamericano (Mexico City: FCE, 1974), 30ff. 4. , p. 33. 5. With respect to the “professorial style” of this concrete generation, Salazar Bondy indicated (as did I) that its philosophy was “imitative or inauthentic,” and not with respect to the totality of Latin American thought that affirmed itself as existing and as historical reflection (which in no way is negated).