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4Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives (edited book)University of California Press. 2001.This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. María Pía Lara brings together a provocative set of essays that reexamine evil in the context of a "postmetaphysical" world, a world that no longer equates natural and human evil and no longer believes in an omnipotent God. The questio…Read more
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La representación política como proceso recurrente: transformaciones y pervivencia de la representación liberalRevista Internacional de Filosofía Política 113-130. 2000.
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41The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of SecularizationColumbia University Press. 2013.Postmodern political critiques speak of the death of ideology, the end of history, and the postsecular return of religious attitudes, yet radical conservative theorists such as Mark Lilla argue religion and politics are inextricably intertwined. Returning much-needed uncertainty to debates over the political while revitalizing the very terms in which they are defined, María Pía Lara explores the ambiguity of secularization and the theoretical potential of a structural break between politics and …Read more
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12Latin American Perspectives on Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution requires no temporalized march of progress or takeovers of state power but instead aims at local control and the material conditions for human dignity.
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El problema de la autoridad política en un mundo globalIn Gustavo Leyva & Víctor Alarcón (eds.), La Teoría Crítica y Las Tareas Actuales de la Crítica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, División De Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades. 2005.
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11Rorty: Intelectual, liberal, etnocentrista Y también un sorprendente personaje moralSignos Filosóficos 9 (18): 219-220. 2007.
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40Globalizing Women’s Rights: Overcoming the ApartheidThesis Eleven 78 (1): 61-84. 2004.This article deals with the empirical example of how social subjects, in this case women, have appropriated the language of rights in order to demand social inclusion. Since there are many different points of view in feminist theory with regard to how to deal with the idea of women’s rights, this article is divided into three sections. In the first section, I focus on how some important normative contents about democracy and rights have already been accepted by many different theorists who speak…Read more
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Una arqueología en torno a lo que comunican los silencios y lo que callan las palabras en la filosofíaRevista Internacional de Filosofía Política 24 169-172. 2004.
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La representación política como proceso recurrente: transformaciones y pervivencia de la representación liberalRevista Internacional de Filosofía Política 16 113-130. 2000.
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65Why Do We Need to Create a Moral Image of the World?Thesis Eleven 91 (1): 6-26. 2007.This article deals with our constructed notions of evil and how an historical appraisal takes shape after specific stories and narratives become important objects of public deliberation, historical criticism, and disclosive views of what constitutes the moral harms of human cruelty. I analyze the historical representations of the meaning of evil in specific historical times through narratives that have made important contributions to our historical understanding of them. I also propose that our …Read more
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50Claudia Card's Atrocity ParadigmHypatia 19 (4): 184-191. 2004.This paper deals with Claudia Card's important contributions to a theory of evil that steps out from traditional models of thinking about this problem . Instead, our author seeks to explore important elements from other theorists in order to build up her ideas of what she calls the "atrocity paradigm." This critical essay focuses mainly in the spaces where Card's conclusions need to rethink the limits and constraints of her theory
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23Reflective judgment as world disclosurePhilosophy and Social Criticism 34 (1-2): 83-100. 2008.In this article I deal with Kant's concept of reflective judgment, and recover it through its links to the aesthetic dimension as its fundamental scenario. Then I go on to explain why Hannah Arendt understood this important Kantian connection, and why she thought it would allow her to develop it through a political dimension. Last, having reviewed both Kant and Arendt's contributions to the concept of reflective judgment, I recover my own input to the concept by showing its linguistic dimension …Read more
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24Democracy and Cultural Rights: Is There a New Stage of Citizenship?Constellations 9 (2): 207-220. 2002.
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44Book review: Seyla Benhabib. The reluctant modernism of Hannah Arendt. Thousand oaks, california: Sage, 1996 (review)Hypatia 14 (3): 162-169. 1999.
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136Albrecht Wellmer: Between spheres of validityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 21 (2): 1-22. 1995.
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68A reply to my criticsHypatia 15 (3): 182-186. 2000.: My text is written to answer the questions asked at the APA Meeting's presentation of the book Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere by professors María Lugones and Eduardo Mendieta. The answer seeks to clarify that Lugones's infrapolitics position is not so distant from mine. I also address Mendieta's question directed more to the aesthetic domain. There, I seek to show how my position could be taken as a creative effort to extend some of Habermas's early work on the public…Read more
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60Claudia card'sHypatia 19 (4): 184-191. 2004.: This paper deals with Claudia Card's important contributions to a theory of evil that steps out from traditional models of thinking about this problem (theodicies, metaphysical theories, etc.). Instead, our author seeks to explore important elements from other theorists (such as Kant and Nietzsche) in order to build up her ideas of what she calls the "atrocity paradigm." This critical essay focuses mainly in the spaces where Card's conclusions need to rethink the limits and constraints of her …Read more
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309In and out of terror: The vertigo of secularizationHypatia 18 (1). 2003.: The key concept is "vertigo of secularization." It relates to the fears that societies experience when understanding the need to ground their political orders as separated from religion. The erosion of values produces vertigos around the world. We need to understand better these kinds of processes because only by doing so can we keep that fear and violence from taking precedence over the hard working tasks of building up a global political community
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89Narrar el mal: una teoría posmetafísica del juicio reflexionanteEditorial Gedisa. 2009.En este libro, la autora desarrolla su concepción del juicio reflexionante inspirada en Emmanuel Kant y en Hannah Arendt para concentrarse en cómo cierto tipo de narraciones modelan nuestras nociones de lo que consideramos moral. Lara nos ofrece distintas concepciones sobre el mal en su formulación histórica mediante los ejemplos de las tragedias griegas, las diferentes concepciones sobre el mal en la obra de Shakespeare, el uso literario de la metáfora en la obra de Joseph Conrad y en narracion…Read more