Augusto Salazar Bondy 1925 – 1974
Augusto Salazar Bondy (1925 – 1974) was a Peruvian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Postcolonial Philosophy and Political Philosophy.
Augusto Salazar Bondy was a Peruvian philosopher and educator and one of the founding voices of Latin American philosophy of liberation. A long-time professor at San Marcos University in Lima and an active participant in the educational reforms of his country, he produced his celebrated Does a Philosophy of Our America Exist? in 1968, in which he argued that philosophy in Latin America had been a tradition of imitation rather than authentic creation and that genuine philosophy in the region must be a philosophy of liberation rooted in the experience of the dominated peoples of the continent. His early death at forty-eight cut short a philosophical project of great promise.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Peruvian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Postcolonial Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Augusto Salazar Bondy:
“The philosophy of an oppressed culture begins as the recognition of its alienation.”
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Attributed to Augusto Salazar Bondy:
“Authentic philosophy in our America must be a philosophy of liberation.”
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Attributed to Augusto Salazar Bondy:
“Culture is the form taken by the historical struggle of a people.”
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Attributed to Augusto Salazar Bondy:
“Imitation philosophy is the philosophy of the colonized mind.”
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Attributed to Augusto Salazar Bondy:
“We are not yet what we will be when we are free.”
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- Augusto Salazar Bondy was a Peruvian philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Augusto Salazar Bondy was a Peruvian philosopher and educator and one of the founding voices of Latin American philosophy of liberation.
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