Latin America / Our America. The philosophical endeavour with us

Abstract

The words with which we expressed our identity are cultural goods, and these, as Arturo Roig says: “they are not worth by themselves, but ... they will be humanly worth insofar as we knew how to cause them to be worth for having assumed them, since ourselves, as subjects of our own History and with a liberating spirit” (Roig, 2008: 26-27). Therefore we propose a revision of the sprouting and uses that have been given to significants such as “Latin America” and “Our America” in specific historical circumstances. Such review is not alien to philosophical exercise for two reasons: because it is a matter of a history of conflicts for the significance in which our identity as Latin Americans is configured and reconfigured, and because the problem is posited itself as a philosophical issue in the second half of the 20th century, especially in the ‘80s and ‘90s, regarding the fifth anniversary of the European landing in these domains. These discussions are crossed by the colonial question in the globalization - localization tautness. We have selected a corpus that takes the works of four relevant authors for the topic as references: Arturo Ardao, Arturo Andrés Roig, Miguel Rojas Mix y Walter Mignolo.