Herausgeber: Michael Schulz und Roberto Hofmeister Pich (eds.)
Erscheinungsdatum: Winter 2020
279 p. hardcover
€45,-D/ €47,- A/€37,99 eBook
Bonn University Press by V & R unipress
ISBN 978-3-8471-1290-7
The title of the conference suggests a double meaning: on the one hand, most of the contributions outline philosophies of religion relevant for Latin America, without, however, betraying an explicit Latin American perspective. This fact reflects a view often found in Latin America, namely, that philosophical reason always articulates itself in the same way, whether in Berlin or Rio de Janeiro. The second meaning of this volume's title suggests that philosophy in Latin America refers to a specific form of philosophy that has developed regionally and bears explicit traces of its origins that differentiate it from philosophy in Europe. This conception claims to demonstrate how a specific cultural situation produces both a new way of thinking and new topics in the field of philosophy.
Philosophy of religion declares the phenomenon of religious plurality to be a subject of reason. Reason does not threaten religion; it can help overcome certain pathological tendencies of religion. As one can see from lived reality in Latin American, reason itself moves between different understandings of what is plausible, including mythical ideas that follow their own logic. One can recognize a cultivated and civilized reason by the fact that it is able to deal with those plausibilities and need not push them aside by force. With this in mind, the genesis of an intercultural philosophy and philosophy of religion in Latin America and Europe is and will continue to be a major task.