Misplaced Ideas?

Elías J. Palti is Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Principal Researcher at the CONICET, Argentina. He is the author of fourteen books, including An Archaeology of the Political Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Columbia University Press, 2017). He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas. Palti received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and the Pensamiento de América "Leopoldo Zea" Prize in 2021, conferred by the Pan American Institute of Geography and History at the Organization of American States (OAS). He served as the Director of the Center for Intellectual History at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina from 2016 to 2022.

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Prologue: The Laughter of the Thracian Girl: For an Intellectual History of Latin American Thought

1) The History of the "History of Ideas" in Latin America and Its Critics

Part 1: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Introduction: The Emergence of Latin American Radicalism: A Case of Inverted Orientalism?

2) Latin American Philosophy I: The Historicist Line in the Genealogical Looking Glass

3) Latin American Philosophy II: The Phenomenological Line and the Metaphysical Turn

4) Revisiting the Topic of "Misplaced Ideas": Dependency Theory and Ideological Production in the Periphery

Part 2: Historiographical Approaches

Introduction: The Syndrome of Alphonse the Wise: Teleologism and Normativism in the History of Ideas

5) Beyond the History of Ideas: On the "Ideological Origins" of the Revolution of Independence

6) From Tradition to Modernity?: Revisionism and Political-Intellectual History

Conclusion: From the History of Models to the History of Problems

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