...Ana Frega Philosophical Polemics, School Reform, and Nation-Building in Uruguay, 1868–1915: Reforma Vareliana and Batllismo from a Transnational Perspective . By Jens R. Hentschke . Baden-Baden, Germany : Nomos , 2016 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 453 pp. Paper...

...Ofelia Schutte Latin American Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Man, Values, and the Search for Philosophical Identity . Edited by Gracia Jorge J. E. . Buffalo : Prometheus , 1987 . Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 269 . Paper . $15.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press...

...William J. Kilgore Antonio Caso: Philosopher of Mexico . By Haddox John H. . Prologue by Reinhardt Kurt F. . Austin and London , 1971 . University of Texas Press . Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 128 . Cloth. $5.50 . Copyright 1972 by Duke University Press...

...Peter A. Coclanis Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman . By Adelman Jeremy . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2013 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 740 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Situating...

...Michael Kenneth Huner The following two chapters and conclusion, in turn, struggle to maintain any analytical and narrative coherence. The chapter on Mujica as philosopher is mostly a running commentary on a compilation of his recent reflections recorded in interviews and public statements...

...Ramón Martínez-López The Abbé Correa in America, 1812-1820. The Contributions of the Diplomat and Natural Philosopher to the Foundations of our National Life . By Davis Richabd Beale . Philadelphia , 1955 . The American Philosophical Society Transactions . Vol. 45 , Part 2. Pp. 87...

...Ramón E. Ruiz Vasconcelos of Mexico. Philosopher and Prophet . By Haddox John H. . Austin , 1967 . University of Texas Press . Illustration. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 103 . $3.50 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 In his last chapter...

...Robert H. Davis The work is far from definitive as a biography. It treats Bello as a theorist but all too often as one largely detached from any specific context. It describes him as a philosopher of education, for example, but not as an actual university administrator engaged in day-to-day...

... drew upon concepts developed by European philosophers (Pascal, Fichte, Hegel, Dilthey, Renan, Ortega y Gasset, and Croce) but which was singularly Peruvian, since as an affirmative historicist apprehension of the collective subject or self named “Peru” it was “homologous with its own formation...

... Wilberforce, prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, utilitarian philosophers Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, scientist Humphrey Davy, and vaccination proponent Edward Jenner. Their conscious choice to draw closer to Great Britain, rather than Napoleonic France or the early republican United States, reveals much about...

.... 161 pp. Cloth , $70.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 While a prisoner of the czarist state, Leon Trotsky underlined the phrase “Ideas do not fall from the sky” in a collection of essays by the Italian philosopher Antonio Labriola. According to Trotsky's own testimony...

....” In this sense, I maintain that Ethics of Liberation marks an important point not only in the trajectory of this Argentine philosopher but also in the development of the history of contemporary thought. For this, I consider the publication and diffusion of this monumental work in the English-speaking world...

... history, though it is less concerned with ideas themselves than with the development of an intellectual discipline, philosophy, and the relationship of its main practitioners to the course of Chilean life since independence. None of the philosophers Jaksić discusses has made much of an impact beyond...

..., anthropology, etc. In La filosofía en la Argentina the author describes the evolution of philosophical ideas and how they have affected the cultural growth of that country. The book is divided into five periods: Scholasticism, French ideologies, Romanticism, Positivism, and Contemporary ideas. During...

...Patrick Romanell The monograph lists chronologically the philosopshical and non-philosophical publications concerning twenty “fundadores” of philosophy in Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Mexico. Although one may question whether all of the twenty names selected are really...

... that the French scientist was more active in the controversy over narrative versus philosophical history than has been apparent. Gay’s history was of the narrative variety and was championed by Andrés Bello, Diego Barros Arana and most other young historians of the mid-nineteenth century. The philosophical...

... the first attempt to analyze in detail the bulk of the existing data relevant to what the author held was the genuinely philosophical ideology of the late pre-Hispanic Nahua-speaking communities of central Mexico. León-Portilla, together with Garibay, is a leader of what almost amounts to a “school...

... discussion of the conceptual problems involved in the study of race and ethnicity and appropriately notes the constant slippage between the two terms. Gracia also includes a brief survey of the development of Hispanic American philosophy and links evolving philosophical trends to changing ideas about race...

... what, following Richard Morse, he calls the “philosophical matrix” of Spain and its empire. He then looks at its practical consequences in the life of Spanish America, and finally considers the way in which it was affected, and subverted, by the introduction of a new, Bourbon “ideology...