Mexican Philosophy

Amalia X. Lopez Molina

National Autonomous University of Mexico

pp. 115-138

in: Yoko Arisaka, Anke Graness (eds), Histories of Philosophy in a Global Perspective, East Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1), 2022.

Abstract

To speak of “Mexican Philosophy” in the 21st century is more complex than referring to a national philosophy or a philosophy of the Mexican state, because Mexican Philosophy is, in fact, a critical vision of the philosophy that this state sought to build. In this essay we will briefly address the difference between Mexican Philosophy or New Mexican Philosophy and Philosophy in Mexico. We will also make a brief survey throughout significant moments and authors in the history of Mexican Philosophy to show the long journey it has gone through (from Mesoamerican philosophies to the 21st century), and how it has formed a grounded critical, rigorous, and contextualized tradition of thought.