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8Contingency and commitment: Mexican existentialism and the place of philosophyState University of New York Press. 2015.Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English. This book examines the emergence of existentialism in Mexico in the 1940s and the quest for a genuine Mexican philosophy that followed it. It focuses on the pivotal moments and key figures of the Hyperion group, including Emilio Uranga, Luis Villoro, Leopoldo Zea, and Jorge Portilla, who explored questions of interpretation, marginality, identity, and the role of philosophy. Carlos Alberto Sánchez was the first…Read more
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8A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-CultureSjsu Scholarworks. 2020.Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture that appears to feed on murder and brutality while being fed by a romanticism about power and capital. Carlos Alberto Sánchez uses Mexican narco-culture as a point of departure for thinking about the nature and limits of…Read more
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9Mexican philosophy for the 21st century: relajo, zozobra, and other frameworks for understanding our worldBloomsbury Academic. 2023.Introduction: Mexican Philosophy: What Is It and Why It Matters -- Relajo -- Nepantla -- Zozobra -- Corazonada -- Tik -- Figure of the World -- Mexistentialism.
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212 Leopoldo Zea, Stanley Cavell, and the Seduction of ‘‘American’’ PhilosophyIn Gregory Fernando Pappas (ed.), Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 185-196. 2011.
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12Impoverishing Moral EcologiesWashington University Review of Philosophy 2 95-102. 2022.In this paper I consider the notion of “moral ecology” in relation to the social/cultural construction known as “narco-culture.” My claim is that the moral ecology of narco-culture is one that is both destructive and prohibitive of human flourishing. The general idea of a “moral ecology” is that the moral space of human conviviality is not unlike an ecological, or environmental, space—both are constituted by various interdependent relations which, when working harmoniously and in optimal capacit…Read more
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22Towards a Phenomenology of Undocumented Immigrant ReasonPuncta 5 (3): 60-71. 2022.I offer a phenomenological description of undocumented immigrant reason, provisionally understood as a sort of historical reason grounded on undocumented immigrant life. That is, the categories of undocumented immigrant reason are resources for undocumented immigrant existence and are inscribed in the historical memory of immigration (they are shared and communal), accessed by immigrants in stories, anecdotes, and interpersonal trauma. Abstracting from personal experience, testimony, popular cul…Read more
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35The Disintegration of Community analyzes the social and cultural writings of Jorge Portilla (1919−1963) and demonstrates the continued relevance of his thought to contemporary debates on the politics of social and cultural identity, the nature of community, and the political role of affect and moods. Sánchez and Gallegos address questions as timely today as they were for Portilla: What drives the impulse toward political nationalism? What sustains the myths that organize our political lives? Und…Read more
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8The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, with a Translation of Fenomenología Del RelajoState University of New York Press. 2012._First in-depth analysis of this important Mexican philosopher’s work._
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93Philosophy and The Post-Immigrant FearPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 18 (1): 31-42. 2011.This paper explores and expands upon Jorge Gracia's reasons for the apparent lack of Hispanics in US philosophy. The point is to explain the underrepresentation of Hispanics in philosophy, with a focus on a specific subgroup of Hispanics, namely, "homegrown" US Hispanics. This group wasentirely missing from the "established" ranks in Gracia's census. I propose a phenomenological explanation for this lack, rooted in my experience as ahomegrown US Hispanic. This experience gives rise to a sense of…Read more
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5The Thought and Social Engagement in the Mexican-American Philosophy of John H. Haddox: A Collection of Critical Appreciations (edited book)Edwin Mellen Press. 2010.Thought and Social Engagement in the Mexican-American Philosophy of John H. Haddox : A Collection of Critical Appreciations
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23The gift of Mexican historicismContinental Philosophy Review 51 (3): 439-457. 2017.The focus of this paper is Mexican historicism. It has three objectives: first, to introduce English-speaking readers to the nature and history of Mexican historicism; second, to defend Mexican historicism against the charges of relativism usually raised against historicism in general and “Mexican” philosophy in particular; and third, to argue for what I call the transcendental, or alternatively, “liberatory,” nature of Mexican historicism—a nature with philosophical and political consequences. …Read more
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18On Heidegger'sRadical Philosophy Review 16 (3): 763-780. 2013.This paper considers the nature of Heidegger’s Eurocentrism in regard to philosophy. Focusing primarily on “A Dialogue on Language,” I argue, first, that Heidegger recognizes the limits of the Eurocentric idea of philosophy and proposes its overcoming. Secondly, I suggest that the proposal to overcome philosophy is made in an attempt to protect philosophy from the encroachment of an otherness that challenges its very identity. This leads me to the view, thirdly, that Heidegger’s Eurocentrism abo…Read more
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14The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, with a Translation of Fenomenología Del RelajoState University of New York Press. 2012.First in-depth analysis of this important Mexican philosopher’s work
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33On Heidegger's "Thin" Eurocentrism and the Possibility of a "Mexican" PhilosophyRadical Philosophy Review 16 (3): 763-780. 2013.This paper considers the nature of Heidegger’s Eurocentrism in regard to philosophy. Focusing primarily on “A Dialogue on Language,” I argue, first, that Heidegger recognizes the limits of the Eurocentric idea of philosophy and proposes its overcoming. Secondly, I suggest that the proposal to overcome philosophy is made in an attempt to protect philosophy from the encroachment of an otherness that challenges its very identity. This leads me to the view, thirdly, that Heidegger’s Eurocentrism abo…Read more
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53The Nature of Belief and the Method of Its Justification in Husserl’s PhilosophyIndo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology 7 (2): 1-10. 2007.The present paper attempts to accomplish the following: (1) to clarify and critically discuss the phenomenology of “belief” as we find it in Husserl’s Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, First Book (1913) (henceforward, Ideas I); (2) to clarify and critically discuss the manner in which the phenomenological method treats beliefs; (3) to clarify and critically discuss the manner of belief justification as described by the phenomenological method; and (4)…Read more
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33Leopoldo Zea, Stanley Cavell, and the seduction of "American" philosophyIn Gregory Fernando Pappas (ed.), Pragmatism in the Americas, Fordham University Press. 2011.This chapter draws parallels between Leopoldo Zea and Stanley Cavell's thought. It forms the basis of this argument in their thought on circumstantialism. Cavell and Zea both reflect on the American circumstance, a circumstance conditioned by the discovery, colonizations, and nationalization of Americas, together with the American people's heroic desire to connect, continuously and urgently, with themselves and their destiny as Americans.
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12Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy: A Fractured Dialectic, by Michael O'Neill Burns (review)Teaching Philosophy 38 (4): 479-482. 2015.
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41"lllegal" Immigrants: Law, Fantasy, and GutsPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 21 (1): 99-109. 2014.This paper exammes the construction and de-construction of the "illegal" immigrant in media spectacle and public discourse. I examme the manner in which hnmigrants are rendered "illegal" and then processed through a mechanism of dehumanization where they are simultaneously located in and outside the space of law. In this process, the "illegal" immigrant is stripped of rights, humanity, and intention. The "illegal" immigrant, seen merely as a body or text, becomes a thing—more precisely, a type o…Read more
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1Normalizing Latin American philosophyTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 30 (2): 175-186. 2011.
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26Husserl’s Way to Authentic BeingHuman Studies 30 (4): 377-393. 2007.In a journal entry from 1906, Husserl complains of lacking "internal stability" and of his desire to "achieve" it. My claim in this paper is that the "phenomenological method," which he made public in his 1907 lectures "Die Idee der Phänomenologie" was, and is, a means to achieve the inner harmony that Husserl longed for. I do not provide an analysis of why Husserl might have felt the way he did; my aim is to show what internal stability might be and how one might achieve it. I conclude that the…Read more
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