Resumen de Gloria Anzaldúa and philosophy: the concept/image of the "Mestiza"
This paper treats Gloria Anzaldúa as a philosopher, while asking the question: why is it that Latin American philosophy is deemed “thought” but not philosophy proper, when we haven’t even answered the question “what is philosophy?” And further, what happens when one steps outside of the “Western” canon, as with Latin American philosophy? What lies beyond the solar system of “Western” philosophy, which in itself is a marvelous invention? Is it thought, is it philosophy proper? If it is thought, I would argue, it is philosophy, and if it is philosophy then it necessarily has to be thought. For what is philosophy if not thought taking account of itself? Hence, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics are only the Western names we have given to the way we think about knowledge, the nature of reality, and the best way to live in a community. But this is also the matter of Latin American and Latino philosophy; and unmistakably what Gloria Anzaldúa does.
