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13Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2011.Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to look at the human relationship with animals from the critical or 'left' tradition in political and social thought. The contributions in this volume highlight connections between our everyday treatment of animals and other forms of oppression, violence, and domination. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of 'animal rights,' the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a po…Read more
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19Augusto Salazar Bondy on Latin American Philosophy: The “Culture of Domination” Thesis ReconsideredComparative and Continental Philosophy 15 (1): 58-70. 2023.One influential explanation for the apparent shortcomings of Latin American philosophy is the “culture of domination” thesis, defended by Augusto Salazar Bondy (1926–1974). According to Salazar Bondy, the ultimate source of the problems besetting Latin American philosophy was to be found in the “culture of domination” that characterized Latin America countries and decisively shaped the philosophical activity of the thinkers working in those countries. In defending his thesis, Salazar Bondy intro…Read more
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37Marxism, Socialism and DemocracyDialogue and Universalism 28 (3): 141-154. 2018.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels believed that their political project involved a commitment to democracy, and many subsequent Marxists have claimed that Marxism’s conception of socialism and communism represents a supremely democratic social arrangement. Many of Marxism’s critics, however, reject this belief, holding that the Marxist conception of socialism and communism entails anti-democratic policies, practices and institutions. While the position of Marxism’s critics is, without question, the…Read more
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19The Concept of “Political Prisoner”: A CritiqueCriminal Justice Ethics 35 (3): 249-267. 2016.The term “political prisoner” plays an important role in contemporary affairs. But how coherent is the concept behind the term, and is use of this term essentially unobjectionable? As it turns out,...
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The Division of Labor RevisitedDissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1998.This study seeks to elucidate and defend the foundations for the critique of occupational specialization that was a centerpiece of much nineteenth-century emancipatory social theory. This critique, especially as elaborated by Karl Marx, highlights the consequences of certain patterns of extreme specialization, such as their detriment to individual welfare and contribution to systematically inegalitarian social stratification, neglected in the canonical treatments of the topic . I argue, moreover…Read more
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5The Political Theory of Che GuevaraRowman & Littlefield International. 2017.This book offers a philosophically-informed exploration of Che Guevara’s most important contributions to radical political and social theory.
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9MarxismIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV References Further Reading.
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17Tauroética de Fernando Savater: una aproximación críticaDianoia 57 (69): 171-184. 2012.En Tauroética, Fernando Savater pretende ofrecer una refutación tanto de los argumentos que se esgrimen para condenar (moralmente) las corridas de toros como de las razones que suelen aducirse para justificar una mayor consideración moral hacia los animales. Este intento de refutación se basa en varias tesis: los seres humanos no tenemos obligaciones morales con los animales, los animales no tienen "intereses", la argumentación antitaurina estriba en una equiparación equivocada de los animales c…Read more
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32El aporte de Aníbal Ponce a la crítica del humanismo modernoUtopía y Praxis Latinoamericana 18 (60): 119-126. 2013.En Humanismo burgués y humanismo proletario, publicado por primera vez en 1938, Aníbal Ponce examina dos concepciones contrapuestas del humanismo. Entre los muchos méritos del estudio de Ponce se pueden destacar tres en particular. En primer lugar, el análisis de Ponce pone de manifiesto que el huma..
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Maurice Cornforth’s Contribution to Marxist MetaethicsNature, Society, and Thought 16 (3): 261-276. 2003.
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28The Marxist Contribution to the Social Sciences (review)Radical Philosophy Review 7 (1): 103-105. 2004.
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Marx’s Critique of the Division of Labor: A Reconstruction and DefenseNature, Society, and Thought 11 (4): 459. 1998.
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59Analytical Marxism and the Division of LaborScience and Society 70 (2). 2006.While commentary on Marx's treatment of the division of labor has often been a major theme in non-Analytical accounts of his thought, Analytical Marxists have by and large shown little interest in this topic, and in this regard G. A. Cohen's work is no exception. Insofar as Cohen does address this theme in his writings, his remarks serve merely to perpetuate a mistaken and untenable interpretation of Marx's views on the division of labor under communism, namely that Marx advocates abolition of t…Read more
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61The Moral Framework of Peter Singer's Animal LiberationEthical Perspectives 16 (1): 61-80. 2009.
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24In this essay I examine Hegel's treatment of religion in the "Philosophy of Right" with the aim of, first, clarifying his view of the proper relation between religion and the state and, second, shedding some light on a few of the remarkable implications of the conceptual approach that he introduces. I focus above all on Hegel's novel and suggestive treatment of fanaticism, which I argue, is of special interest as an illustration of his conception of modernity. The implications of Hegel's views f…Read more
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1The Amauta's ambivalence : Maríategui on raceIn 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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