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13Jürgen Habermas, Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophy. Band 1: Die Okzidentale Konstellation von Glauben and Wissen; Band 2: Vernünfitge Freiheit: Spuren des Diskurses über Glauben and Wissen (review)Critical Research on Religion 8 (2): 196-202. 2020.
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20The Axial Age, social evolution, and postsecular consciousnessCritical Research on Religion 6 (3): 289-308. 2018.This article focuses on Karl Jaspers’s notion of the Axial Age, some of its critical appropriation, and how in particular Habermas has returned to this idea, after several critical engagements with Jaspers’s work through his long scholarly productivity. The article, however, centers on Habermas’s selective and critical use of Jaspers’s notion in his own latest and extensive engagement with what he calls “a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking.” The goal of the article is to identify the ways i…Read more
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32Phenomenology 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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89The 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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17Metaphysics 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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38Lógica, Lecciones de M. Heidegger (review)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 16 (2): 516-524. 1993.
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84The prison contract and abolition democracyRadical Philosophy Today 5 209-217. 2007.This article discusses the fortuitous genesis of the book of my conversations with Angela Y. Davis, Abolition Democracy and traces some of the intellectual and philosophical sources that informed the specific questions and approaches that inform the dialogue. Davis’ relationships to Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer, as well as to Foucault, are discussed. Similarly, Davis’ place within a critical black American political-philosophical tradition is analyzed. The essay focuses mainly, however, on …Read more
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46El debate sobre el futuro de la especie humana: Habermas critica la eugenesia liberalIsegoría 27 91-114. 2002.En este artículo se discute el reciente libro de Jürgen Habermas, Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur. Auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik . Se presta especial atención al argumento central relacionado con los efectos negativos que podría tener la aceptación general de la clonación y el diagnóstico génico preimplantacional sobre la autocomprensión moral y política de las generaciones presentes y futuras. La discusión continúa con una crítica a los argumentos centrales de Habermas contra el DGP…Read more
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23The Imperial Bestiary of the U.S.: Alien, Enemy Combatant, TerroristRadical Philosophy Today 2006 155-170. 2006.The so-called War on Terror has given rise to a virulent discourse that demonizes all those who allegedly seek to do harm and kill Americans. A veritable bestiary of demonic and bestial creatures has been thus ensembled, constituting what one cannot but call an “imperial bestiary.” Here we do not so much consider the contents of this imperial bestiary, as much as seek to analyze its grammar, that is, the way it operates on certain moral assumptions that have very pernicious moral consequences. R…Read more
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'biopolitics And Racism', Special Issue Of Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (review)Foucault Studies 121-126. 2005.
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20The city and the philosopher: on the urbanism of phenomenologyPhilosophy and Geography 4 (2): 203-218. 2001.Philosophy projects a certain understanding of reason that is related to the ways in which the city figures in its imaginary. Conversely, the city is a practice of spatialization that determines the ways in which agents are able, or unable, to live out their social agency. This essay focuses on the ways in which philosophy and the city's spatializing practices and imaginaries inform differential ways of living out social agency. The thrust of the investigation is to discern the ways in which sex…Read more
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1The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor, & the Philosophy of Liberation (edited book)Humanities Press. 1998.Until now, North American and European philosophies have been engaged in debates about the possibility of a postmetaphysical philosophy and the consequences of the linguistic turn for the assessment of modernity; they have done so, however, without departing from the narrow horizons of their respective nationalistic perspectives. In this incisive critique, Dussel demonstrates how most of thse philosophies have either failed to give historically faithful analyses of the genesis of the "myth" of m…Read more
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8Educating the Political ImaginaryHypatia 15 (3): 163-174. 2000.María Pía Lara's two books, La Democracia como proyecto de identidad ética and Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere are described and analyzed. Her contribution to a feminist left-Habermasian theory of the relationship between the aesthetic dimension and the political imaginary are discussed. Questions and concerns, however, are raised regarding the assumptions of universal pragmatics and Lara's attempt to offer a positive reading of the dependence of the political imaginary …Read more
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208Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2003.This anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about identity, including explorations of race, class, gender, and nationality. Explores the long and rich tradition of philosophical analysis and debate over the genesis, contours, and political effects of identity categories. Provides the definitive theoretical sources and contemporary debates by leading theorists such as selections from Hegel, Marx, Freud, DuBois, Beauvoir, Lukács, Fanon, Hall, Guha, Hobsbawm,…Read more
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57Plantations, ghettos, prisons: US racial geographiesPhilosophy and Geography 7 (1): 43-59. 2004.In the first part of this essay, I develop the argument that Michel Foucault's work should be read with geographical and topological ideas in mind. I argue that Foucault's archeology and genealogy are fundamentally determined by spatial, topological, geographical, and geometrical metaphors and concepts. This spatial dimension of genealogy is explicitly related to racism and the regimes that domesticate agents through the practices, institutions and ideologies of racialization. The second part of…Read more
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