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Luis Villoro, La Razón Disruptiva, Antología compilada por Guillermo Hurtado, Penguin Random House, 2023, 412pp., $16.50 (pbk), ISBN 9786073834629.
Reviewed by Carlos Montemayor, San Francisco State University
Luis Villoro (1922–2014) is a central figure in Mexican philosophy and is read across the Spanish-speaking world. Guillermo Hurtado’s excellent anthology of Villoro’s work provides a comprehensive view of Villoro’s key ideas and marks a major contribution to contemporary epistemology. The anthology reflects the work of a cosmopolitan intellectual, trained at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who also held postgraduate fellowships in Paris and Munich. Organized thematically in four sections, it includes articles, brief pieces of commentary, and excerpts from books, all in Spanish. The first section, on “the other and others”, focuses on religious and existential experiences, the sacred, and indigenous identity in Mexico. Section two, on knowledge, rationality, and truth, is dedicated to Villoro’s epistemology. In section three, on power and ideas,…
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