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55Phenomenology 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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79The 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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24The 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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16Religion and Rationality: Essays on Reason, God and Modernity (edited book)Polity. 2002.This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including Benjamin, Heidegger, Johann Baptist Metz and Gershom Scholem. In a new introduction written especially for this volume, Eduardo Mendieta places Habermas' engagement with religion in the context of…Read more
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23Zur Anwendung der Diskursethik in Politik, Recht und Wissenschaft (review)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 18 (1): 286-291. 1995.Zur Anwendung der Diskursethik in Politik, Recht und Wissenschaft suggests that something like a critique of practical reason, or at least its foundations—from the perspective of transcendental semiotics—is in the works, and in addition that it is something possible, desirable and even necessary. The suggestion is that a semiotically transformed transcendental philosophy, as the theoretical aspect of a philosophical system, has its complement in a practical philosophy whose main tenets have come…Read more
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258Educating the political imaginaryHypatia 15 (3): 163-173. 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 imaginar…Read more
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4The Sophistic Effect (review)Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy 6 (1): 417-424. 2014.
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32The Literature of Urbicide: Friedrich, Nossack, Sebald, and VonnegutTheory and Event 10 (2). 2007.
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24Dispose After Expiration DateTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 20 (2): 129-136. 2016.This article argues that there are three key claims of postphenomenology: first, that there is no immediate access to a phenomena that is not always already embodied; second, that there is no science that is not determined by a technology, and that technologies are instances of certain theoretical assumptions and perspectives; third, that all technoscience is enabled and mediated by the embodied perception that takes place in and through instrumentation, which leads to the insight that all scien…Read more
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Klaus Oehler, "Charles Sanders Peirce" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (4): 1001. 1994.
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21Translating Democracy or Democratic Acts of Translation: On Cornel West’s Democracy MattersContemporary Pragmatism 4 (1): 25-37. 2007.Focusing on West's recent work Democracy Matters, this essay argues that West's work has been guided by three major acts of translation. First, he has sought to translate the memory of suffering and the history of struggle into the foundations for democratic maturity. Second, combining Socratic questioning, prophetic practice and dark hope, West translates suspicion, action and hope into an ethos of collective education, which he calls democratic paideia. Finally, West's work has sought to trans…Read more
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60From imperial to dialogical cosmopolitanism?Ethics and Global Politics 2 (3). 2009.We can now survey the ruins of a Babelian tower of discourse about cosmopolitanism. We speak of “elite travel lounge,” “Davos,” “banal” as well as of “reflexive,” “really existing,” “patriotic,” and “horizontal” cosmopolitanisms. Here, an attempt is made to extract what is normative and ideal in the concept of cosmopolitanism by foregrounding the epistemic and moral dimensions of this attitude towards the world and other cultures. Kant, in a rather unexpected way, is profiled as the exemplificat…Read more
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337Surviving american culture: On Chuck palahniukPhilosophy and Literature 29 (2): 394-408. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Surviving American Culture:On Chuck PalahniukEduardo MendietaIn an age in which American culture has become the United States' number one export, along with its weapons, low intensity conflict, carcinogenic cigarettes, its "freedom," and pornography, it is delightful and even a sign of hope that there are writers who have taken on the delicate and perilous task of offering a prognosis of what ails this culture. In the following essay…Read more
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202Discourse ethics' before the challenge of 'liberation philosophyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 22 (2): 1-25. 1996.
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