Toward an Appreciation of Latin American Philosophy: Jorge J. E. Gracia's Recovery Mission

ELIZABETH MILLÁN is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy (Albany, 2007). She is coeditor (with Jorge Gracia) of Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century (Amherst, 2004) and (with Arleen Salles) of The Role of History in Latin American Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives (Albany, 2005). With John Smith, she coedited a special journal of the Goethe Yearbook (2011), Goethe and German Idealism. Together with Bärbel Frischmann, she edited The New Light of German Romanticism (Schöningh Verlag, 2008). Elizabeth is currently finishing a book-length study in which she argues that Alexander von Humboldt is best understood as a romantic critic of nature.

AMY A. OLIVER is Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Philosophy and Religion and Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at American University, Washington, D.C. Her areas of specialization are Spanish and Latin American philosophy, philosophy of literature, and women’s studies. Among her publications are a critical edition of Leopoldo Zea’s The Role of the Americas in History (1992) and Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain (2007), coedited with María Luisa Femenías. She has also served as Latin American Subject Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. She is currently working on an English translation of Carlos Vaz Ferreira’s Sobre feminismo to be included as an appendix in a larger study of Vaz Ferreira’s work.