Current Latin American Critical Thought and Philosophy

Abstract

The philosophy and critical thinking from our America has sought to incorporate philosophical categories and concepts from a broad traditions’s range. Sometimes contradictory and opposite, others even confl icting. Namely, we have been taken concepts, categories and notions from Western Europe. Indeed, this multiple origin of ideas nowadays constitutes the main tool of the philosophical and critical thinking on Latin American and Caribbean sociohistorical reality. Our work here is to compare the arguments in favor of our own diverse tradition with those that suggest the practice as suspicious and even strange.