The philosophy in the world today: The actuality of (alter) philosophy

Abstract

This essay contains both a refection on the colonizing character of a part of Central American Philosophy and an exposition of its alternatives. The predominant philosophy reproduces the logic of “requerimiento”, masking it behind the rhetoric of salvation, modernization and revolution. This logic comes to the world in the Sixteenth Century and has been reproduced ever since through humanities and social sciences. As an alternative, we found the efforts of a thinking beyond the logic of “requerimiento” and its legitimizing rhetorics. The philosophical projects and the modes of refections by Rodolfo Kusch, in Argentina, and Carlos Lenkersdorf, in Southern México, are two models, though not the only ones, that embody an (alter) philosophy. The ongoing colonizing praxis of a “flosofía sin más” give renewed actuality to (alter) philosophies

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 148, 2016: 113-141