# Misplaced Ideas

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- Book: [Misplaced Ideas](https://www.bookquiver.com/roberto-schwarz/misplaced-ideas) ([Misplaced Ideas.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roberto-schwarz/misplaced-ideas.md))
- Authors: [Roberto Schwarz](https://www.bookquiver.com/roberto-schwarz), [John Gledson](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-gledson)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-08-6091-576-8
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1992-09-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

How can Latin Americans understand their past? Do ideologies which have been imported from Europe necessarily distort their view, or is that to underrate the power and objectivity of the ideas themselves?...