Kusch aims to legitimize popular thought in comparison with the regulated mentality of the West through the exegesis of the sayings of the Puno scholar Anastasio Quiroga, permeated by a kind of pantheism anchored in the metaphysics of being-being. This topic, as the philosopher clearly notes, characterizes our uniquely American position, distinctive in relation to the thought of being, rooted in Greco-Latin thought.
The negation in popular thought assumes its character as practical philosophy to the extent that Kusch reflects from the very experience of dialogue, from contact with a sovereign indigenous way of thinking, the matrix of a future situated anthropology, freed from the colonial gaze. We have included as an appendix four unpublished articles in which Kusch prolongs the modulation of the American dilemma: between estrangement and autochthony, between the popular and the "cultured," between literature and collective life, enigmatic, monstrous, liberating, and sacred.