This introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the central topics in Latin American philosophy.

Susana Nuccetelli is Professor of Philosophy at St Cloud State University, Minnesota. She is the author of Latin American Thought (2002) and co-author of Latin American Philosophy: An Introduction with Readings (2004). She co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy (with Ofelia Schutte and Otávio Bueno, 2009) and is a contributor to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Preface; 1. Setting the Scene: The Iberian Conquest; 2. Modest and Immodest Feminism; 3. The Authoritarian Republicanism of Bolívar; 4. The Liberal Republicanism of Sarmiento and Alberdi; 5. Home-Grown and Imported Positivism; 6. Martí's Liberal Anti-Positivism; 7. Utopian Latin Americanism: Arielism and Mestizofilia; 8. Soft and Hard Socialism; 9. Liberation Theology and Philosophy; 10. Skepticism and Anti-Skepticism about Latin American Philosophy; Glossary; References; Index of Names and Subjects.