Thinking from Evil. Hermeneutics in times of Apocalypse
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https://doi.org/10.15381/escrypensam.v22i48.26044Abstract
The book Pensar desde el mal, by Peruvian philosopher Víctor Samuel Rivera, deserves to be preceded by a couple of considerations. The first, for its originality; the second, for its insertion in the academic and social debate with philosophy as a whole. Throughout the 20th century, a certain malaise has been established in Latin American philosophy. This malaise, especially accentuated since the middle of the 20th century, originates in a demand for originality, authenticity, for the critical capacity of Latin American philosophical thought. This demand goes hand in hand with the undeniable need to address the pretensions of universality that characterise philosophy itself (Castro-Gómez, 2011; Echeverría, 2019; Ruiz, 2020; Salazar Bondy, 1968). Rivera has managed to associate his own discourse, located in America, slowly developed over the last two decades, with a rigorous dialogue with the philosophical tradition; in this way he opposes a common complex in Andean and Latin American spaces of thought: the desire to start from scratch and not to be indebted to anyone.
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