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The work of Father Pedro José Márquez has been little studied. The most accessible histories and studies of Novohispano thought do not include it, although there has nonetheless been a memory and criticism of the "mexican doctor". Aesthetics is understood, in general and properly speaking, the branch of philosophy that focuses on the study of (own) sensibility, which, guided by the intellect, is the device with which beauty is captured. So the Aesthetics is, in the first place, philosophy of the sensibility and philosophy of beauty. But the Aesthetic connects with the arts. So, Aesthetics, secondly, is philosophy of art. This is the path that Father Pedro José Márquez followed. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the Jesuit Father's Aesthetics, especially in his speech entitled On the beautiful in general, is a philosophy of sensibility, beauty and art. The theoretical and practical resources provided by Analogical Hermeneutics will be taken advantage of. This work will be divided into two parts. In the first, the contexts of On the beautiful in general are presented; and, in the second, the Aesthetics of the Jesuit father will be treated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper addresses the concept of culture in the generation known as the patriarchs or founders of Latin American philosophical thought, for which a relationship is established between culture and philosophy, and then the most important characteristics of the philosophy of some philosophers of this generation, such as Alejandro Korn, Carlos Vaz Ferreira, Alejandro Deústua, Enrique Molina and Antonio Caso is described, in order to point out the main ideas about the concept of culture and its relation with Latin American identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper tries to articulate, in a plexus of critical sense, the philosophical-political potential found in a series of stances like the Latin American philosophy, cultural control, critical theory and memory, that challenge, defend and support, in one same hermeneutic universe, the validity if the heterogeneous thinking, making the critique to sole thinking and the rescue for the other ontologies a "whistle amidst the cyclone". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discloses a personal interpretation --by no means arbitrary-- of the text On the concept of history or Thesis on the philosophy of history by Walter Benjamin, read in a situated manner: a reading whose penetrating sight pretends to be from Latin America. It will be insisted in the exceptional critique of Benjamin's work, suggesting that his proposal reaches a redefinition and transvaluation of the concept of history, one that usually determines us and prevents any act, any revolutionary praxis, which in times like ours are required more than ever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From three particular works created in Latin America, the article proposes that the contribution of art for the construction of a more democratic culture lies in the work of art that opens the experience of memory as an origin from and by means of which things historical to us and speak to us. For this, the paper addresses works that propose the crisis of the modern museum in relation to history and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]