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3Prolegomena to a Life Lived in Two WorldsJournal of World Philosophies 8 (1). 2023._This essay outlines the author’s professional trajectory, a good portion of which is a journey through what historian Richard M. Morse called “the strange career of Latin American Studies.” The author’s intellectual interests span several fields but center most often at the intersections of philosophy, women’s and gender studies, and Spanish and Latin American letters. Further channeling Morse, what one’s occupation is called, is far less important than doing one’s work with _cha cha chá.
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9Formulating Metaphysical Contexts in Mexican and Spanish PhilosophyJournal of World Philosophies 7 (2). 2023.Leopoldo Zea of Mexico and Miguel de Unamuno of Spain are two exemplary philosophers in twentieth-century transatlantic Hispanism. In this article, these thinkers are put in conversation to explore their contrasting orientations toward existence, which reveal both the breadth of modern Hispanic thought and the benefit of Emilio Uranga’s concept of zozobra, in this case applied by holding in tension the differing approaches of Zea and Unamuno rather than choosing one over the other.
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74Context and Kant in the Aesthetics of José Enrique Rodó and Samuel RamosSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 18 (1): 65-76. 2014.In the classic essays Ariel (1900) and Filosofía de la vida artística (1950), the Uruguayan José Enrique Rodó (1872–1917) and the Mexican Samuel Ramos (1897–1959) present distinctive and divergent claims about aesthetics. While Rodó asserts the existence of an innate and abundant aesthetic sensibility among Latin Americans, Ramos believes that aesthetic experience is relatively rare and that aesthetic sensibility needs to be cultivated. While historical grounding in the Latin American context is…Read more
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32Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain (edited book)Rodopi. 2007.This book demonstrates the vast range of philosophical approaches, regional issues and problems, perspectives, and historical and theoretical frameworks that together constitute feminist philosophy in Latin America and Spain. It makes available to English-Speaking readers recent feminist thought in Latin America and Spain to facilitate dialogue among Latin American, North American, and European thinkers.
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2Susana Nuccetelli, Latin American Thought: Philosophical Problems and Arguments Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (6): 436-438. 2002.
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17Lucinda Joy Peach, 1956-2008Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 82 (2): 163. 2008.
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Mestizaje, mexicanidad, and assimilation : Zea on race, ethnicity, and nationalityIn Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed.), Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought, University of Notre Dame Press. 2011.
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