Knowledge and Freedom in the Work of Luis Villoro : Emancipatory Intelligence / Carlos Montemayor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montemayor, Carlos, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villoro, Luis.

Political ethics.

Social epistemology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This open access introduction to the major Mexican philosopher and activist Luis Villoro shows how his ideas can reshape contemporary thought. Carlos Montemayor tells the story, through a philosophical lens, of this leading Mexican thinker and his quest for justice and freedom. At the heart of the book is Villoro’s liberational approach to knowledge production. He believed an education aimed at integrating freedom with knowledge stands in opposition to escapist epistemologies which unfortunately dominate our times. From Villoro’s early writings on epistemology and Mexican history to his involvement in Zapatismo, we find out how his ideas turned into actions. This is a compelling portrait of one of the most important figures in 20th-century Mexican philosophy. For anyone interested in Latin American perspectives it is an essential guide to the work of a philosopher who spent most of his life trying to understand the complexity of the American continent and its original habitants. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by San Francisco State University.

Contents:

List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: From the cubicle to Zapatista territory Indigenous Mexico The question of Mexican identity: the Hiperión group The unity of thought and action Philosophy and intellectual commitment Political activism Chapter 2: The practice of non-exclusion: A linguistic analogy The concreteness and situatedness of non-exclusion A linguistic analogy Social epistemology: Rationality, cooperation, and reasonableness Toward an ethics of attention Chapter 3: Truth, knowledge, and freedom The claim of reason The origins of reason and meaning: Villoro on Wittgenstein Joint attention and common ground: the case of mathematics Wittgenstein and Turing on the instruments of reason Automatism, spontaneity, and purpose in action Chapter 4: Reforming intelligence The concreteness and familiarity of the world On genuine philosophy Belief and reasonable communication Communication and concreteness Attention and reasonableness Chapter 5: Pragmatism, attentive engagement, and contemporary epistemology A pragmatic account of belief A pragmatic account of truth and knowledge Strong belief and the figure of the world: Ortega y Gasset and Wittgenstein Western epistemology turned inwards: a diagnosis Chapter 6: The figure and mind of the world: Ideology and collective memory Epistemology, ethics, and politics The figure of the world and the mind of the world Villoro, Rawls, and the politics of language Collective memory and collective attention Chapter 7: True revolutions: A bureaucracy of intimacy Intellectual upheavals and the importance of clarity in opposing ideology True revolutions: politics and culture A bureaucracy of intimacy: Villoro’s capability approach

Notes:

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

ISBN:

9781350527966

OCLC:

1597483903