La fuerza mesiánica en el indígena

soteriología latinoamericana en Martí y Vasconcelos

Abstract

The patriotic ideas of José Martí and José Vasconcelos are based on the rescue of indigenous tradition. For them it is impossible to achieve full autonomy in Latin America without vindicating the indigenous and the mestizo, for this reason it can be argued that the rescue of the indigenous tradition is a redemptive act that unleashes “the messianic force” contained in said tradition. Consequently, such a redemptive act is a soteriological imperative. In order to combine these categories with the philosophies of José Martí and José Vasconcelos, the contributions of Walter Benjamin and Alexander Dugin are used in this paper.