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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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20Thinking 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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81Elogio a la herejía: el ateísmo radical de RortyIdeas Y Valores 57 (138): 17-28. 2008.Rorty se debe estudiar, no especialmente por la fidelidad de sus narraciones de la historiografía filosófica, o por la corrección de sus lecturas, sino principalmente porque, como los grandes pensadores de la filosofía occidental, él nos ha ofrecido una gran meta-narrativa. Rorty fue un meta-filósof..
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21At the limits of political theory: Culture, property and latinosPhilosophy and Social Criticism 29 (1): 71-83. 2003.Jorge Valadez’s important contribution to political theory in general, and multicultural citizenship in particular, is assessed from the standpoint of the duplicitous role ‘culture’ plays in contemporary political theory. After underscoring its virtues, the essay turns to a discussion of three major concerns that the book raises: its negativistic view of the culture of the oppressed; its anachronistic proposal about universal property rights; and the way the author might have to revise its view …Read more
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22The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers (edited book)Routledge. 2004.In "The Frankfurt School on Religion," Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than being unanimously antagonistic towards religion as has been the received wisdom, this collection shows the great diversity of responses that individual thinkers of the school developed and the seriousness and …Read more
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8Review of Nicholas Adams, Habermas and Theology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (2). 2007.of Nicholas Adams, (from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews).
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83The city and the philosopher: On the urbanism of phenomenologyPhilosophy and Geography 4 (2). 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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