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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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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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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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15The Silence of the Sirens: Rereading the Dialectic of Enlightenment with Kafka and BorgesJournal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (3): 401-410. 2014.ABSTRACT The article rereads Horkheimer and Adorno's classic Dialectic of Enlightenment from the standpoint of animal philosophy while also offering a comparison and contrast between Odysseus and Socrates as personifications of the “animal question” that haunts all Western philosophy. The key thesis is that this question is a metaphilosophical question and that we thus have to develop a critical philosophy that is at its core also an animal philosophy.
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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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25Dispose 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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7The Metaphysical Bite of Animal Others and Toothless EthicsPhilosophy Today 55 (Supplement): 43-46. 2011.
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21Communicative freedom, citizenship and political justice in the age of globalizationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (7): 739-752. 2005.Seyla Benhabib’s The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era (2002), is considered in terms of three main virtues: first, it moves the question of political justice beyond the debate on the priority of recognition over distribution; second, it contributes to the expansion of the notion of communicative freedom and how it relates to rights; and third, it lays down the foundation for a cosmopolitan, post-nationalistic, form of citizenship that would have as its core the rights …Read more
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14The Death of Positivism and the Birth of Mexican PhenomenologyIn Gregory D. Gilson & Irving W. Levinson (eds.), Latin American Positivism: New Historical and Philosophic Essays, Lexington Books. pp. 1. 2012.
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9Forms of Transference: On Charles Johnson’s Philosophical FictionThe Pluralist 12 (1): 30-37. 2017.i want to begin by thanking my good friend Richard Hart for the invitation to be part of this wonderful panel in which we are honoring while also being challenged by the work of Charles Johnson to think differently about our discipline. I also want to thank the organizers of SAAP for hosting this important series of lectures, in which we are invited to engage the work of thinkers who challenge us to think differently because they either come to our problems from different disciplines and fields,…Read more
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76Scholar’s Symposium: The Work of Angela Y. Davis: The Prison Contract and Surplus Punishment: On Angela Y. Davis’s Abolitionism (review)Human Studies 30 (4): 291-309. 2007.
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33Ecoscapes: Geographical Patternings of Relations (edited book)Lexington Books. 2006.This volume presents the concept of Ecoscape as spatial interrelations, or spatially patterned processes, that are constitutive of an environment_an ecosystem. Contributors investigate environmental issues concerning the human impact on geohistory, food distribution, genetically modified biota, waste management, scientific mapping, and the rethinking of human identity
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128What can and cannot be rescued – taking leave of Heidegger’s hutPhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (2): 227-233. 2012.
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7The Race Project: On Michael J. Monahan’s, The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (review)CLR James Journal 18 (1): 188-195. 2012.
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15Mapping the Geographies of Social Inequality: Patricia Hill Collins's Intersectional Critical TheoryJournal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2): 458-465. 2012.
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