- Antenor Orrego
Antenor Orrego Espinoza (
22 May 1892 -17 July 1960 ) was a Peruvianwriter andphilosopher cite web |url= http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/ibero/xaman/articulos/9701/9701_jup.html |title= "Nationalism and Continentalism in Latin American History." |author= Jussi Pakkasvirta |format=html |work=University of Helsinki |date= January 1997 |quote= Antenor Orrego, a Peruvian philosopher, went back to the indigenous past. He argued, this time against arielism, that European traditions in Latin America have been even more destructive for the well-being of the continent than US imperialism. Orrego rejected 'intellectualEurocentrism ' by emphasizing that Europeandecadence andvice s have to be replaced by 'authenticamericanism ', which is not only "indigenismo" but also asynthesis of different continental (non-European) cultural and intellectual elements. ] of Basque ancestry. He was a member of theAmerican Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA).Antenor Orrego was born in 1892 to José Asunción Orrego and Victoria Espinoza Villanueva in the Santa Cruz Province of the
Cajamarca Region ofPeru . He died inLima ,Peru in 1960. [ [http://orrego.bravehost.com/ Antenor Orrego, 1892-1960:] "Elamauta del humanismo indoamericano" ( [http://orrego.bravehost.com/biografia.html Biography] ) (in Spanish)]The
Antenor Orrego Private University [ [http://www.upao.edu.pe/ Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego] website] founded inTrujillo, Peru in 1988 is named for him.References
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