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CUELLAR MORENO, José Manuel. Keyserling’s South American Meditations: Their Influence on the Philosophy of lo Mexicano. Latinoamérica [online]. 2021, n.73, pp.189-211.  Epub 09-Mayo-2022. ISSN 2448-6914.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2022.73.57267.

The purpose of this article is to review Keyserling’s main philosophical ideas and categories in his South American Meditations (published in German in 1932), and show the major influence they had on Mexican thinkers such as Samuel Ramos and Emilio Uranga. This articles vindicates the important role of Keyserling in the “Germanization” of Mexican Philosophy in the first half of the past century, and traces for the first time the presence of some Keyserling’s notions (“hombre telúrico”, “mundo abisal”, “gana”) in the characterization of the Mexican as delicate and unwilling. This influence was decisive and spread throughout Latin America. Historicism provides the methodological assumption that an idea (even a philosophical one) is nothing but a way a concrete human being deals with her circumstances.

Palabras llave : Keyserling; South American Meditations; Mexican Philosophy; Samuel Ramos; Emilio Uranga.

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