Major Trends in Mexican Philosophy

Manuscripta ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-183
Author(s):  
Louis A. Barth
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Philosophy

scholarly journals Mexican Existentialist Ethics and the Pragmatic Authenticity of Rodolfo Usigli's El gesticulador

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-401
Author(s):  
Stephanie Merrim
Keyword(s):  
Common Cause ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Mexican Philosophy

This article explores the genesis of Mexican literary existentialism in Usigli’s 1938 play, El gesticulador. It elucidates various key drives of Mexican existentialism from Usigli’s moment onward and situates Usigli’s literary existentialism within those drives. In so doing, the essay articulates the deeply-rooted ethical bent of a Mexican existentialism forged in the orbit of identity discourse. It argues that Usigli’s morally equivocal drama makes unexpected common cause with that bent: dynamically conjugating stagecraft, Mexican philosophy, and post-revolutionary politics, El gesticulador advances a pragmatic authenticity based on altruism, communitarianism, and principles over Truth.

Octavio Paz: The Search for Mexican Identity

1982 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Hoy
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Octavio Paz ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Jose Vasconcelos ◽  
Mexican Nationalism ◽  
Intellectual Revolution ◽  
Mexican Philosophy ◽  
Mexican Identity

The question of national identity has been a central theme in Mexican thought since the Revolution of 1910. The writings of Octavio Paz, one of Mexico's most prominent literary figures, are an important and provocative locus for this question. The contribution of Paz to an analysis of Mexican identity must be seen in the broader context of an intellectual revolution in Mexico. This began in the late 1920's and was directed against the prevailing philosophical romanticism represented by Antonio Caso and Jose Vasconcelos. This was, in part, a protest against the anti-intellectualism inherent in an “aesthetic-intuitive” approach of these writers. But it was also the demand for a philosophical perspective more relevant to an emerging Mexican nationalism already being articulated in literature and art. The writings of the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset were of crucial importance in influencing Mexican philosophy towards realism. The key concept taken from Ortega was that of “historical perspectivism”: the view that reality cannot be grasped independently of the point of view from which it is being observed. Perspectives do not distort reality; they constitute it. Philosophy, then, is changed from something abstract and eternal to something concrete and historical. Ortega's historical perspectivism became the inspiration for Mexican thinkers who wished to develop a national philosophy and a concept of “Mexicanidad.”

scholarly journals La hermenéutica analógica: Aportación fundamental de la filosofía mexicana

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Álvarez Colín
Keyword(s):  
New Synthesis ◽  
Philosophical Movement ◽  
Mexican Philosophy

RESUMENEste artículo busca rehabilitar la analogía y el símbolo y articular los principales aspectos de una nueva hermenéutica que es una contribución significativa de la filosofía significativa de la filosofía mexicana. El fulcrum de este movimiento filosófico-que se analizará en el presente trabajo- consiste en: 1. integrar la metafísica y la ética con los aspecto de la historicidad, la cultura y la tradición; 2. resaltar las semejanzas y las diferencias, presentes en cada situación junto con el significado de los valores, los conflictor y el poder; y 3. realizar una nueva sínt4esis entre los universales y las características nativas de las subjetividades creando así una hermenéutica encarnada que tiene su suelo nutricio en el horizonte ontosemántico y trascendental del mundo vital.PALABRAS CLAVEANALOGÍA, SIMBOLO, ÍCONO, MUNDO VITALABTRACTL. Alavrez-Colin uses this article to explore both analogy and symbol, in mutual inclusion, instead of limitations of univocity and equivocality in order to articulate the main trends of a new hermeneutics, Analogic Hermeneutics, which is a core contribution of mexican philosophy. The fulcrum of this new philosophical movement consist of: 1. integrate the metaphysics and ethics with those aspects of historicality, culture and tradition; 2. enhance the similarities and the differences that are present in every situation (interpreted) with the significance of values, conflict and power; and 3. make a new synthesis between universald and indigenous characteristics of subjectivities creating in such a way an embodied hermeneutics, always grounded in the ontosemantic and trascendental horizon of lifeworld.KEYWORDSANALOGY, SYMBOL, ICON, LIFEWORLD

scholarly journals The Philosophy of Accidentality

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-409
Author(s):  
MANUEL VARGAS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Cultural Alienation ◽  
Mexican Philosophy ◽  
Social Subordination

AbstractIn mid-twentieth-century Mexican philosophy, there was a peculiar nationalist existentialist project focused on the cultural conditions of agency. This article revisits some of those ideas, including the idea that there is an important but underappreciated experience of one's relationship to norms and social meanings. This experience—something called accidentality—casts new light on various forms of social subordination and socially scaffolded agency, including cultural alienation, biculturality, and double consciousness.

La visión de Carmen Rovira sobre la filosofía mexicana

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Ambrosio Velasco Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Outstanding Contribution ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Mexican Philosophy ◽  
History Of

The main purpose of this paper is to interpret the main contributions of Carmen Rovira to the study of the historical development of Mexican philosophy in its hermeneutical aspects as well as in the rescue and interpretation of the original works of Mexican philosophers since the XVI Century. In first place I analyze her hermeneutical methodology for the history of Mexican philosophy that highlights the importance of interactions between texts and contexts. Secondly, I refer to the archives rescue made by Carmen Rovira to reconstruct a Mexican philosophical corpus, especially for XIX and XX centuries. But the most relevant ofCarmen Rovira’s philosophical work is her original and critical interpretations of Mexican and Iberoamerican works, both from colonial and independent period. The most outstanding thesis of these interpretations is that during the colonial epoch Mexican philosophy was determinant for the construction of an idea of authentic nation that was very important for Mexican independence in the first decades of Nineteenth Century. Unfortunately, after Mexican independence the great cultural and political relevance of Mexican philosophydecayed. The most outstanding contribution of Carmen Rovira is precisely to recover the cultural and political relevance of philosophy in present Mexico.

Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
National Character ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mexican Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Philosophical Questions

Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and written an introduction to some of the most influential texts in 20th century Mexican philosophy. Together, these texts reveal and give shape to a unique and robust tradition that will certainly challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerges out of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and cultimates in la filosofía de lo mexicano (the philosophy of Mexicanness), which reached its peak in the 1950s. Though the selections respond to a variety of philosophical questions and themes and will be of interest to a wide range of readers, they represent a tendency to take seriously the question of Mexican national identity as a philosophical question—an issue that is complicated by Mexico’s indigenous and European ancestries, its history of colonialism, and its growing dependency on foreign money and culture. More than an attempt simply to describe the national character, however, the texts gathered here represent an optimistic period in Mexican philosophy that aimed to affirm Mexican philosophy as a valuable, if not urgent, contribution to universal thought and culture.

scholarly journals Gloria Anzaldúa’s Mexican Genealogy: From Pelados and Pachucos to New Mestizas

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Mariana Alessandri ◽  
Alexander Stehn
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Octavio Paz ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Latin American Philosophy ◽  
American Philosophy ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Mexican Philosophy

This essay examines Gloria Anzaldúa’s critical appropriation of two Mexican philosophers in the writing of Borderlands/La Frontera: Samuel Ramos and Octavio Paz. We argue that although neither of these authors is cited in her seminal work, Anzaldúa had them both in mind through the writing process and that their ideas are present in the text itself. Through a genealogical reading of Borderlands/La Frontera, and aided by archival research, we demonstrate how Anzaldúa’s philosophical vision of the “new mestiza” is a critical continuation of the broader tradition known as la filosofía de lo mexicano, which flourished during a golden age of Mexican philosophy (1910–1960). Our aim is to open new directions in Latinx and Latin American philosophy by presenting Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera as a profound scholarly encounter with two classic works of Mexican philosophy, Ramos’ Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico and Paz’s The Labyrinth of Solitude.

A Mexican Personalist: Antonio Caso (1883–1946)

1946 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Kurt F. Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
American Continent ◽  
Good Neighbor Policy ◽  
Jose Vasconcelos ◽  
Mexican Philosophy ◽  
Good Neighbor ◽  
Wide Awake ◽  
Life Work

If the “Good Neighbor Policy” were a fact rather than a political slogan or at best a pious wish, the life, work, and death of one of the great thinkers, writers, and teachers of the Western Hemisphere could hardly have passed almost without being noticed in the Anglo-Saxon part of the American continent. On March 6th of this year died in Mexico City Antonio Caso, mourned by Mexico and her Ibero-American sister republics as well as by three generations of students who in their minds and hearts bear indelibly the moral stamina which they received in the classes taught by their beloved maestro in the Escuela Preparatoria and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Mexico. José Vasconcelos, in his funeral oration, recognized in his departed compatriot “the most eloquent voice of Mexican philosophy, that voice which kindled in human minds the love for truth and beauty”, and then recalled in this personal apostrophe the great scholarly and human qualities of Antonio Caso: “You were,” he said, “a despiser of everything vile and wicked; you were disdainful of money, and you turned your back on power…. With your great gifts you might have gained materially comfortable positions of influence. Many times Fortuna knocked at your door, but you refused to open because you had decided to remain loyal to your vocation as a thinker. … Meanwhile, your conscience stayed wide awake, sensitive to noble actions and sublime ideas…. Those who follow your leadership recognized in your balanced mind the marks of the classicist; in your sensitivity, those of the romanticist; in the integrity of your conduct, those of the gentleman. Maestro completo: wherever there is a school, there is your fatherland. Mexicano universal: through you our nation occupies a distinguished place in contemporary thought.”

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