ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Stehn explains how French and British positivism were incorporated into education reform in Mexico in the second half of the 19th century, and then criticized by a new wave of Mexican philosophers in the first half of the 20th century. Stehn claims that a central aim of Mexican philosophy was to build the Mexican nation and national identity by means of education, a strategy that extends into the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s.
