Man, culture and American philosophical anthropology in Rodolfo Kusch

Abstract

Rodolfo Kusch (1922-1979) was an Argentine philosopher and anthropologist who integrated various philosophical categories into the investigations of indigenous American thought. In general, in his works, he criticizes the abandonment of questions arising from the possibilities of being in favor of the reification of the world, which inevitably gives way to ignoring the subjectivity of those who act. Thus, in him we have a philosopher interested in thinking and understanding what is American from a procedure that goes beyond what could be considered a Western scientific attitude, which discards the significance of the particular realities of peoples in favor of sustaining the science as a finished product of absolute truths and logical assertion of propositions.