Rodolfo Kusch Quotes
Rodolfo Kusch was an Argentine philosopher and anthropologist whose work was a sustained attempt to think philosophically from within the Andean and indigenous American world. Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America and America Profunda contrasted the European categories of being and the active self with the Andean categories of estar, a passive locative being-here, and the seminal, while his later essays on the geocultura of America defended a philosophy rooted in the soil and history of the continent rather than imported from Europe. The quotes below are attributed to Rodolfo Kusch, organized by topic.
Rodolfo Kusch on Knowledge
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Attributed to Rodolfo Kusch:
“We do not yet know how to think from where we stand.”
Rodolfo Kusch on Nature
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Attributed to Rodolfo Kusch:
“The philosophy of these lands begins in the dust of the Andean plateau.”
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Attributed to Rodolfo Kusch:
“Geocultura is the truth that thought belongs to a place.”
Rodolfo Kusch on Politics
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Attributed to Rodolfo Kusch:
“To be is European; to be-here is American.”
Rodolfo Kusch on Time
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Attributed to Rodolfo Kusch:
“America is not behind Europe; it is alongside it, in another time.”