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57Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in PraxisHypatia 19 (3): 231-234. 2004.Review of Jacqueline Martinez's Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis.
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83The Ethics of Policing: New Perspectives on Law Enforcement (edited book)NYU Press. 2021.From George Floyd to Breonna Taylor, the brutal deaths of Black citizens at the hands of law enforcement have brought race and policing to the forefront of national debate in the United States. In The Ethics of Policing, Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars across the social sciences and humanities to reevaluate the role of the police and the ethical principles that guide their work. With contributors such as Tracey Meares, Michael Walzer, and Fran…Read more
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15Anthropocenic TemporalitiesEnvironmental Philosophy 17 (1): 125-141. 2020.The Anthropocene must also be seen as the convergence of the historicization of nature and human historicity, not simply metaphorically, but factually. As historical time is injected in nature through anthropogenesis, resulting in our having to see nature as a product of a historical process, our understanding of time is being transformed. The Anthropocene must be understood as a temporalization of time tout court. The key concern is what could be called an Anthropocenic matrix of intelligibilit…Read more
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27The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2018.Over a career spanning nearly seven decades, Jürgen Habermas - one of the most important European philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - has produced a prodigious and influential body of work. In this Lexicon, authored by an international team of scholars, over 200 entries define and explain the key concepts, categories, philosophemes, themes, debates, and names associated with the entire constellation of Habermas's thought. The entries explore the historical, philosophical a…Read more
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8The creature of language: Three postcards to ChuckPhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (7): 741-744. 2018.
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11Borders and Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness (edited book)Lexington Books. 2018.This book addresses issues connected with political, ontological, existential, and spiritual borders that define our being-in-common. Engaging with various debordering practices relating to migration, the media, hospitality, and the more than human world, it is a timely contribution to contemporary philosophical, political, and social studies.
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30Metaphysics of Subjectivity and the Theology of SubjectivityPhilosophy and Theology 6 (3): 276-290. 1992.This study calls for a re-evaluation of Schleiermacher’s relevance and contemporaneity, with special emphasis on his account of consciousness and his theory of religion. Through a critical examination of Hegel’s critique of Schleiermacher, the author argues that Schleiermacher suceeeded in overcoming the paradigm of subjectivity in some ways, and failed in others.
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29The U.S. Border and the Political Ontology of "Assassination Nation": Thanatological DispositifsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (1): 82-100. 2017.The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country—a border culture. Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is …Read more
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43Habermas on human cloning: The debate on the future of the speciesPhilosophy and Social Criticism 30 (5-6): 721-743. 2004.Jürgen Habermas’s recent book Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur (2001) is discussed. Particular attention is paid to the central argument concerning the adverse effects the general acceptance of cloning and pre-implantation genetic diagnostics (PGD) would have on the moral and political self-understanding of present and future generations. The argument turns to a critique of Habermas’s central arguments against PGD, and develops at least two arguments that are in harmony with his general defens…Read more
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19On Left Kantianism: From Transcendental Critique to the Critical Ontology of the PresentFoucault Studies 18 245-252. 2014.
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12Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials: Cosmopolitical Philosofictions. By Peter SzendyConstellations 23 (3): 460-461. 2016.
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9The Intimacy of Thought: Philosophy as the Labor of FriendshipJournal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (2): 115-127. 2016.But in the age of the disintegration of experience human beings are no longer subjectively disposed to letter writing. For the present it looks as though technology is eliminating the preconditions for the letter. Because letters are no longer necessary, given the speedier possibilities of communication and the shrinking of spatio-temporal distances, their inherent substance is disintegrating as well. Benjamin brought to letter writing an antiquarian and uninhibited talent; for him the letter re…Read more
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From Hermeneutics to Semiotics: Karl-Otto Apel's Transformation of Transcendental PhilosophyDissertation, New School for Social Research. 1997.Discourse ethics is one of the most contemporary and controversial theories of ethics. It is contemporaneous because it attempts to formulate a theory of ethics that takes into account all of the major advances in philosophical thinking and their challenges to the foundations of any future ethical theory It is controversial because of its elaboration of the ethical as the injunction to see everything from the standpoint of the generalized Other which simultaneously factors in the social conditio…Read more
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21Thinking From the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the articulation of a unique Latin American theoretical perspective. This anthology of original articles by U.S. philosophers elucidating Dussel's thought, offers critical analyses from a variety of persp…Read more
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138The 'second reconquista' or why should a 'hispanic' become a philosopher?Philosophy and Social Criticism 27 (2): 11-19. 2001.
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16Philosophy's Paralipomena: Diaries, Notebooks, and LettersJournal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (4): 413-421. 2014.Arthur Schopenhauer, in an essay titled “On Authorship and Style,” included in volume 2 of his Parerga and Paralipomena, writes, “First there are two kinds of authors, those who write for the sake of the subject and those who write for the sake of writing. The former have ideas or experiences which seem to them worth communicating; the latter need money and thus write for money.”1 Schopenhauer, however, changes his mind quickly a page later and writes: “Again, we can say that there are three kin…Read more
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