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317Claudia Card's Atrocity ParadigmHypatia 19 (4): 186-193. 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 th…Read more
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306In 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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133Albrecht Wellmer: Between spheres of validityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 21 (2): 1-22. 1995.
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114The Frail Emergence of Mexico's Democracy: Conquering Public SpaceThesis Eleven 53 (1): 65-78. 1998.This article offers a new interpretation of Mexico's transition to democracy that differs from the pessimistic and less culturally oriented ones that currently prevail. In the article I develop a normative model, which emphasizes the moral capacities of civil societies and their ability to inspire altruistic actions. I suggest that this approach is not only more compelling philosophically but also more plausible empirically. To demonstrate this, I reconstruct a series of events from Mexico's rec…Read more
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87Narrar 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
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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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64Why 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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58Claudia 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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48Reflective 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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45Claudia 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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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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39Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective JudgmentColumbia University Press. 2007.Turning to such philosophers and writers as Jürgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin, Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, and Ariel Dorfman, Lara defines a reflexive relationship between an event, the narrative of the event, and the public reception of ...
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38The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of SecularizationColumbia University Press. 2013.María Pía Lara explores the ambiguity of secularization and the theoretical potential of a structural break between politics and religion.
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37Book 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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30A conceptual analysis of the term ‘populism’Thesis Eleven 149 (1): 31-47. 2018.In this paper I want to leave behind the failed attempts to think about populism as ideology, strategy, style, or even discourse. I will focus on the ‘conceptual battles of politics’ and their potential to influence actors to pursue and effect specific ends. Reinhart Koselleck and his ideas about conceptual history will figure prominently in my discussion, as will his concept of asymmetrical combat-concept as a means of unleashing a theoretical and political war. The goal is to demonstrate that …Read more
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27Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia CardLexington Books. 2009.Rather than focusing on political and legal debates surrounding attempts to determine if and when genocidal rape has taken place in a particular setting, this essay turns instead to a crucial, yet neglected area of inquiry: the moral significance of genocidal rape, and more specifically, the nature of the harms that constitute the culpable wrongdoing that genocidal rape represents. In contrast to standard philosophical accounts, which tend to employ an individualistic framework, this essay offer…Read more
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23A Genealogy of Rape through a Feminist ImaginaryEssays in Philosophy 19 (1): 60-92. 2018.The subject of gender violence is complex because our conceptions of what constitutes violence have historically evolved. Therefore, I propose that we should try to understand gender violence neither in abstract nor in essentialist ways, but within historical frameworks and through concrete examples. In this essay I will focus on a historical genealogy of our moral views about gender violence, and, in particular, on the figure of what we call today “rape.” The question of rape is but one example…Read more
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22Reflective 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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21Book 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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21The term ‘Populism’ as a combat-concept and a catchwordPhilosophy and Social Criticism 45 (9-10): 1144-1156. 2019.Following a previous article where I defined how a concept becomes a weapon of ideological wars, this article seeks to clarify why there are semantic connections of the actual concept of ‘populism’ with the semantics of the concept of crisis. My key argument is to focus on how actors use the concept of populism on the public sphere with the goal to inspire fear instead of allowing citizens and theorists to understand what is behind our present political–economic crisis. In my view, both theorist…Read more
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20Richard Bernstein and his concept of pragmatic fallibilismConstellations 30 (1): 26-29. 2023.Constellations, EarlyView.
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20Democracy and Cultural Rights: Is There a New Stage of Citizenship?Constellations 9 (2): 207-220. 2002.
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18The Prague colloquium: The heart, spirit, home of critical theoristsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (3): 268-269. 2017.
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18Richard Rorty: Becoming a Contemporary Political PhilosopherContemporary Pragmatism 11 (1): 69-82. 2014.
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17Reflective 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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13A 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 s…Read more