Sáenz examines some important philosophical issues that have been fundamental to Latin American thinkers since their countries obtained political independence in the early nineteenth century.

Choice Reviews

This book offers us the framework through which we can legitimately raise the question of the identity of Latin America within the United States. . . . Sáenz's book should spur Anglophone readers to take a serious view of Latin American intellectual history.

Encounter: Education For Meaning & Social Justice

Issues that Anglo-American philosophy is just beginning to address. . . have been addressed by many Latin American philosophers for several generations. Sáenz's analysis and evaluation of the Latin American traditions of thought on these topics will be an invaluable service for Anglophone philosophers, and will provide a new model for reading philosophy within a fully articulated historical sense.

Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College