The Role of the Americas in History

By Leopoldo Zea

Amy A. Oliver, Sonja Karsen (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

1991
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-7721-4 (ISBN)

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A translation of an essay in Latin American thought which explores the meaning of the history of the Americas in relation to universal history. Zea reveals the relationships between the particular history of Latin America and the history that has been and is being made by other peoples.

This first-time translation makes available to English-speaking readers a seminal essay in Latin American thought by one of Latin America's leading intellectuals. Originally published in Mexico in 1957, The Role of the Americas in History explores the meaning of the history of the Americas in relation to universal history. Amy A. Oliver's introduction provides an excellent overview of such major themes in Zea's thought as marginality, humanism, Catholicism and Protestantism, philosophy of history, and liberation.

Amy A. Oliver is Professor of Languages and Foreign Study at the American University.

History and the Latin American mind; history viewed as an invention of the west; liberalism and the expansion of the west; the universalizing influence of western culture; Russia on the fringe of the west; Spain on the fringe of the west; Europe on the fringe of the west; Latin America on the fringe of the west; puritanism as a component of the American mind; Catholicism and modernism as components of the Latin American mind.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.1.1992
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Latin American Thought
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8476-7721-4 / 0847677214
ISBN-13	978-0-8476-7721-4 / 9780847677214
Zustand	Neuware