“The Philosophy of Subordination” by A.S. Bondy in the Context of the Sovereign Model of Cultural and Economic Development of Peru and Latin America

The research discusses various aspects of the concept of “philosophy of subordination” and “culture of domination” Augusto Salazar Bondy (1925–1974), the most prominent Peruvian thinker of the mid-20th century and one of the founders of the liberation philosophy tradition in Latin America. Based on the material of Bondy’s main philosophical and journalistic works of the 60s–70s, it is shown that his project of liberation philosophy, which arises as a direct result of historical and philosophical research of previous years, is being formed, unlike his contemporaries in the philosophical generation (L. Zea, J.C. Scannone, G. Gutierrez), not as a project of a new philosophy of history, dialectics, or liberation theology, but has a cultural foundation. Special attention is paid to the issue of Bondy’s analysis in his work of the problem of searching for the autochthonous roots of Latin American philosophical discourse, which he, unlike the vast majority of his contemporaries, does not recognize in contemporary Latin American philosophy. In addition, special attention is paid to the economic aspects of Bondy’s “philosophy of subordination” in its connection with solving pressing problems of economic development in Peru and the entire Latin American region, in particular, the concept of philosophy of education that he actively developed in the last years of his life. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.