Augusto Salazar Bondy 1925 – 1974

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.