Editors’ Note

CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas. The journal’s primary emphasis is on the opening up of the possibilities for a future Americas which does not amount to a mere reiteration of its past. We seek interventions, provocations, and, indeed, insurgencies that release futures for the Americas. In general, CR welcomes work that is inflected, informed, and driven by theoretical and philosophical concerns at the limits of the potentialities for the Americas.

Such work may be explicitly concerned with the Americas, or it may be broader, global and/or genealogical scholarship with implications for the Americas. CR recognizes that the language of the Americas is translation, and that therefore questions of translation, dialogue, and border crossings (linguistic, cultural, national, and the like) are necessary for rethinking the foundations and limits of the Americas.

For 45 years, CR has been a journal committed to interdisciplinarity; we continue to encourage work which goes beyond a simple performance of the strategies of various disciplines and interdisciplines, and that therefore interrogates them.

Several of the essays published in this number were first presented at the “Singularities of Latin American Philosophy” symposium, which was held at the University at Buffalo in April 2007. Several people made this event possible, but special thanks go to Rodolphe Gasché, Jorge Gracia, Shaun Irlam, Henry Sussman, and Ewa Ziarek. Th e symposium would have been impossible without the singular contribution of Theresa Monacelli. There is no more urgent question today, here and now, than that of the identity of philosophy, not least because the identity of philosophy turns on and around the very possibility of identity writ large. What does it mean to write philosophy here and now, in and from this place, at this time? Say, in and from and about Latin America? Is a Latin American philosophy possible? And if so, what are its parameters, its limits? Or is the future of Latin American Philosophy, and thus its present as well, here and now, today, precisely marked by the impossibility of writing Latin American philosophy as such? What is singular about Latin American philosophy that it would inscribe itself in philosophy as such, mark its difference from, say, European philosophy? In and with what accent are we to read Latin American philosophy?

We currently are soliciting work for special issues or special sections on the following topics, among others:

• • The Palestine Issue

• • Resisting Literature

• • Borges, Kabbalah, and Politics