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131Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus: Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of workCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 2024.In this paper, we attempt to de-naturalize the prevailing economistic imaginary of work that Max Weber and later commentators described as ‘protestant work ethic,’ epitomized in the figure of homo economicus. We do so by contrasting it with the imaginary of skillful work that can be found in vignettes about artisans in the Zhuangzi. We argue that there are interesting contrasts between these views concerning 1) direct goal achievement vs. indirect goal achievement through the cultivation of skil…Read more
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478Alienated Dependence: The Unfreedom of our Social RelationsJournal of Social Philosophy. 2024.Modern individuals grapple with a paradoxical reality: their lives are characterized by a strong feeling of independence as well as by an intense social interconnection. This article argues that despite an increased discussion of dependence in contemporary social and political philosophy, current ways of theorizing it have disregarded the concrete form that our social dependence takes under capitalist relations. I maintain that without integrating the critique of political economy, we risk offer…Read more
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1007Releasement and Reappropriation: A Structural-Ethical Response to the Environmental CrisisEnvironmental Values 32 (4): 493-506. 2023.WINNER OF THE SIMON HAILWOOD ESSAY PRIZE. This paper discusses the problem of alienation from nature, considered through the phenomena of reification and de-objectification. I propose understanding alienation as the result of a distorted relation between the subjective and the objective and I suggest a tentative solution via the combination of two ethico-political practices: releasement and reappropriation. In doing so, I put forward a structural-ethical critique and response to our current ecol…Read more
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226¿Y si fuera el cuerpo quien animase al alma?Res Publica: Revista de Historia de Las Ideas Políticas 1 (24): 53-62. 2021.Este artículo explora la problemática del cuerpo desde una perspectiva de género. Primero, se estudia la evasión filosófica del cuerpo, así como su inadvertida asimilación a lo femenino. Segundo, se examina la negación capitalista del cuerpo y la posibilidad de entender la diferenciación entre las lógicas de explotación y de expropiación a través de una previa diferenciación entre cuerpos. Se propone finalmente hacer un análisis de la exclusión general del cuerpo como una exclusión particular de…Read more
The New School
PhD, 2022
Groningen, GR, Netherlands
Areas of Specialization
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19th Century Philosophy |
G. W. F. Hegel |
Karl Marx |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Critical Theory |
Feminist Philosophy |
Environmental Philosophies |
Areas of Interest
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Social and Political Philosophy |
G. W. F. Hegel |
Karl Marx |
Critical Theory |
Feminist Philosophy |
Environmental Philosophies |