Andrew Ascherl’s translation of Santiago Castro-Gómez’s Critique of Latin American Reason is now available from the Columbia University Press website (as well as other online book retailers). This translation features a foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff, a new preface by the author, and an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta situating Castro-Gómez’s thought in the context of critical theory in Latin America and the Global South. Two appendixes feature an interview with Castro-Gómez that sheds light on the book’s composition and short provocations responding to each chapter from a multidisciplinary forum of contemporary scholars who resituate the work within a range of perspectives including feminist, Francophone African, and decolonial Black political thought.
This book is the second that Andrew has translated for Northwestern University’s Critical Theory in the Global South project. Learn more about Andrew’s first book translation for this project, Nelly Richard’s Eruptions of Memory: The Critique of Memory in Chile, 1990-2015.
On October 29 and 30, 2020, the Critical Theory Program at Northwestern University hosted a two-day discussion of Santiago Castro-Gómez’s foundational book Crítica de la razón latinoamericana. This discussion featured addresses by Eduardo Mendieta and Castro-Gómez himself, as well as responses by several contemporary scholars from both the Americas and Europe.
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