Philosophy 204: Mexican Philosophy

This course focuses on selected figures and themes within the history of philosophy as that discipline has been practiced on and around the area that we now call Mexico. We explore a range of thinkers from the precolonial Nahua philosophy through late 20th and early 21st century Mexican and Mexican-American philosophers. Themes will include the challenge of indigenous philosophy; fundamental questions about the nature of reality; the ethics of colonization, revolution, and war; the role of race and culture in identity, and notions of borderlands, fluidity, and hybridity. The course will be conducted in English.