Santiago Castro-Gómez is professor of political philosophy at the University of Santo Tomás and the University Javeriana in Bogotá. He was part of the influential intellectual collective modernity/coloniality, and he has been visiting professor at Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Frankfurt. His publications in English include Zero-Point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment (2021).

Andrew Ascherl has translated several works of Latin American critical theory and literary criticism.

Linda Martín Alcoff is professor of philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Eduardo Mendieta is professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.

Foreword: A Principled Pessimist of the Left-Castro-Gomez's Critique of Latin American Reason, by Linda Martín Alcoff
Translator's Note
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue to the Second Edition
Introduction: The Othering of Latin America and the Critique of the Critique of Colonial Reason, by Eduardo Mendieta
1. Postmodernity's Challenges to Latin American Philosophy
2. Modernity, Rationalization, and Cultural Identity in Latin America
3. Populism and Philosophy
4. Latin America Beyond the Philosophy of History
5. The Aesthetics of the Beautiful in Spanish American Modernism
6. Postcolonial Reason and Latin American Philosophy
7. The Birth of Latin America as a Philosophical Problem in Mexico
Appendix 1. From the History of Ideas to the Localized Genealogy of Practices: An Interview with Santiago Castro-Gómez
Appendix 2. Santiago Castro-Gómez's Critique of Latin American Reason: Contemporary Provocations
Notes
Bibliography
Index