Is there a Latin American School of Studies of Ideas and the Intellectual?
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to discuss whether there is one or more Latin American schools of studies on ideas and the intellectual and, if so, what would be the traits that would make up a specific profile, in contrasts and similarities with some other Latin American schools and other regions: European, US-American, Asian, African, oceanic or sub-regional. To advance in a positive answer, an attempt is made to define some lines that could constitute a profile. These would be: 1) recognition of a trajectory for generations; 2) systematic occupation by the eidetic trajectory of LAC as a whole; 3) preparation of works on this same task showing its trajectory; 4) articulation in intellectual networks, creating meeting instances, conversation and formulation of activities; 5) a shared conceptualization; 6) epistemic historicism that inspires many or all of the founders and continuators; 7) a battery of research questions that can show the most expressive, fruitful or innovative aspects of our expression; 8) its exclusive occupation with the scriptural, turning its back on orality; 9) the very low assumption that there is a feminine thought in the region; 10) a propensity to produce panoramic works on thought by country or the entire region; 11) the assumption that well-done eidetic studies should empower the region itself.