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Society and Space, 2014

This is a review essay on an amazing book that ought to be read fervertly today. This is one of t... more This is a review essay on an amazing book that ought to be read fervertly today. This is one of the texts I am most proud of.

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Routledge eBooks, Jul 22, 2005

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Impulso (Piracicaba), 2003

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Eikasia: revista de filosofía, 2013

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Penn State University Press eBooks, Jun 12, 2018

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DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2008

Rorty should be studied neither especially because of the faithfulness of his narratives of the h... more Rorty should be studied neither especially because of the faithfulness of his narratives of the historiography of philosophy, nor because of the correctness of his readings, but mainly because, as the great philosophers of Western philosophy, he offered us a grand meta-narrative. Rorty was a meta-philosopher for whom the most important meta-narrative of philosophy was the struggle against gods, fetishes and myths that subjugated and humiliated humans. At the same time, this meta-narrative has as a central column the centrality of the power of persuasion through the game of giving and receiving reasons, reasons that expand the circle of those that we should consider our dialogue partners. In the expansion of our circle of conversation the imagination has priority over reason.

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Elsevier eBooks, 2008

This article surveys the different divisions of philosophy in general and moral philosophy in par... more This article surveys the different divisions of philosophy in general and moral philosophy in particular. It points out that while ethics and morality have one same common linguistic root, the two terms have come to stand for two different approaches to ethical theory. The moral philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are discussed. Kantian deontology and utilitarianism are also analyzed. The article concludes with a brief overview of three twentieth-century moral theories.

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Fordham University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2011

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This important new volume brings together Jürgen Habermas's key writings on religion and rel... more This important new volume brings together Jürgen Habermas's key writings on religion and religious belief. In these essays, Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. He often ...

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Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2001

Jorge J. E. Gracia is without question one of the best known Latino/Hispanic philosophers in the ... more Jorge J. E. Gracia is without question one of the best known Latino/Hispanic philosophers in the United States and abroad. He was a founding member of the American Philosophical Association (APA) committee on Hispanics, and its first chair. There is something, however, unique, not to say peculiar, about this recent book by Prof. Gracia. He was trained as a medievalist. His areas of expertise are late Medieval philosophy, the problem of individuation, a central topic within ontology, or more broadly defined metaphysics. Scholars trained in such fields tend not to be concerned with contemporary matters, social reality, and the vagaries of ‘identity politics.’ Yet, Gracia has taken on a topic that prima facie could be construed as being antithetical to his own philosophical orientation. As he declares in the ‘preface’ he writes not as a leader, or prophet, or even ideologue of a movement. He writes as both a ‘Hispanic’ and an ‘American’ who is concerned with the fate of the nation and his people, and who happens to be a philosopher. And this is what makes this book refreshing and insightful. Gracia is not peddling some new intellectual fashion. Nor is he compromising his intellectual orientation in order to make it fit some political agenda. Gracia de-mystifies a lot of sacred cows, and is able to question many presuppositions taken for granted in the ‘movement.’ Again, not because he is pushing a particular agenda. There is a lot of honesty, clarity, in this book. And this is refreshing.1

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Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2003

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City, 2013

I t is a good thing that we judge books neither by their covers nor by their titles. It is also a... more I t is a good thing that we judge books neither by their covers nor by their titles. It is also a good thing we also judge them neither by their prologues nor their forewords. Amin and Thrift’s latest joint book should not be judged on any of these accounts, except on the first sentences of their prologue, which reads: ‘This is a book about how the Left, particularly in the West, can move forward in the struggle to voice a politics of social equality and justice. But it does not provide a manifesto, a template, or even a plan’ (ix). Two gorgeous sentences, straightforward, but full of pathos and above all dignity. The first, declares, confesses and commands an ethical commitment. This is a book about what we can do to further the struggle against injustice and inequality. However, at the same time, it announces after it has declared its point of departure, its moral foothold, that it has no ‘manifesto, template, or even plan’ to provide. Should we be confused, disappointed, ‘turned off’? Should anyone on the side of justice and equality also not have a road map, or in our days should we not say an IP address, for how to get to a social arrangement in which we can decrease suffering and degradation, and tip the scales of justice on the side of integrity and dignity? Amin and Thrift do us the honor of treating us as enlightened and cosmopolitan citizens of a global society that can do without the pontificating of soothsayers, apocalypsists or Leninist prophets. Their stance should remind us of Kant and Rorty. The former urged us to ‘Sapere Aude!’ He dared us to depart from all self-incurred forms of mental tutelage. The latter reminded us that there are less useful and more useful ways to talk about our collective challenges. He dared us not to get things right, but to see them under the bright light of an utopia in which more and more of us could count part of our beloved ‘we’. Between Kant and Rorty there is a common meeting ground, and it goes by the name of Mündigkeit, or what I would call ‘cosmopolitan maturity’. This is also the ground from which Amin and Thrift address us. This book is about what the Left should be proud of, what it can do to recapture the imagination of peoples to energize them into social action, and what horizons lay ahead in terms of actionable strategies. I will quickly overview the contents, before I come to what I take to be the main reason why many of us interested in tipping the scales of justice on the side of integrity and dignity should be reading this wonderful and very useful book. The book is made up of seven compact, well-argued and well-annotated chapters. In the first, Amin and Thrift lay out their understanding of what they call ‘the grounds of the political’. The key argument in this chapter is that historically the Left has been known for

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Chiasmi International, 2013

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Society and Space, 2014

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Routledge eBooks, Jul 22, 2005

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Impulso (Piracicaba), 2003

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Eikasia: revista de filosofía, 2013

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Penn State University Press eBooks, Jun 12, 2018

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DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2008

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Elsevier eBooks, 2008

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Fordham University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2011

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Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2001

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Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2003

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City, 2013

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Chiasmi International, 2013

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Truthout.org, 2020

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This is an interview with Victor-M Amela, a journalist with the Barcelona based daily, the Vangua... more This is an interview with Victor-M Amela, a journalist with the Barcelona based daily, the Vanguardia. Victor interviewed me for two hours, and he distilled our conversation into a wonderful interview. The day before I had delivered a lecture at the European Humanities School, at the stunning Palau Macaya, on "On the Ages of Nature: Abysmal Tectonic Temporalities, Anthropocenic Archechronotopes, or Geothanotologies" ---The text of my lecture will appear in La Maleta, a Harper's of Spain.

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This is an interview with Abraham Monteros, from the University of Texas, El Paso. It is an inter... more This is an interview with Abraham Monteros, from the University of Texas, El Paso. It is an interview about the status of Latin American and Latino/a philosophy in the US. I reflect on about 30 to 40 years of work on what I call the matriarchs and patriarchs of Latin American philosophy, and the demographic challenge that the profession faces. I also make specific recommendations for Latino/as interested in pursuing work in philosophy

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Peace Review, 2004

A longer version of this interview subsequently appeared as the fourth and final interview of Ang... more A longer version of this interview subsequently appeared as the fourth and final interview of Angela Davis, “Resistance, Language, and Law,” in Angela Y. Davis, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, Empire (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005), 105-132.

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How I got to know my son, 2020

Over the last two months, like many people across the world, I have been living in lock down mode... more Over the last two months, like many people across the world, I have been living in lock down mode, staying home, practicing physical distancing, working from home. But, unlike many, I have been most fortunate to have been doing so with my son. I was scheduled to be away for the spring and most of the summer traveling abroad, doing research and giving lectures and seminars. My son had agreed to move into my house and take care of it while I was away. All of those plans went out the window when the pandemic unleashed its deadly vector on the world. I returned to the States, and my son, who studies at the University where I teach, was also quarantined. He was laid off from his job, and he could not go anywhere else, not New York, where he grew up and most of his friends live, which was turning into the epicenter of the pandemic in the US. So, over the last months, we have spent a lot of time together, alternating cooking dinners, going for walks, hanging out and talking. He tried to teach me a card game, and I helped him put together a computer from scratch. All the time we have had to spend has been some of the best time I have had in my adult life. I have unexpectedly felt good about being a father, notwithstanding the terrible times. I knew my son was a gentle, generous, funny person. But, I did not know the depths of his goodness. He is a left democrat, of the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders persuasion. He is funny, in the Colbert type of humor, but also is quick to express his outrage at the injustice of our society, in the John Oliver school of political humor. He is very explicit about his anti-racism and critical of how we have stepped back from the vision and passion of the civil rights. Parents are expected to like their children and to express their approval of them, even if only perfunctorily. But over the last couple of months, I come to realize that my son is a genuinely wonderful person, a person that I would want to be friends with and that I would want in my life, regardless of whether they were or not family. Getting to know my son, has forced me to think a lot about myself as a father. One of the big question that has guided this self-inspection has been: how did I managed to father of such a wonderful human being? That has been the rather unusual, and generally unasked, question that I have been asking myself as I gotten to know my son. Unusual, for in fact I did not, originally, want to be a father. I had had bad experiences with my biological father and a step-dad, my mother's second husband. I grew up fatherless, and for the most part moving from one aunt to another, until I was able to reunited with my mother, who had come to the United States to forge a path and create a life for herself and her children. I remember indelibly my father beating my mother, and I as a small child trying to shield her. But I also repressed a lot, as I found out recently. My father, in fact, disappeared from our lives, until he reappeared a couple of days before he died of a heart attack and stroke. He came to visit us, my brother and I, and I remember spending some afternoons, and visiting him in the hospital. He must have sensed he was dying. I remember his big, hirsute body. He seemed to always have a five a clock shadow. He smoked, incessantly. I remember the smell of his cigarettes, but also of what later I came to recognize as the smell of alcohol. But, I don't remember his voice, or any particular phrase, or anything he may have said to me. Over the last couple of years I have been interviewing my mother about her childhood, and about our lives before she left. My mother is the historian of my apocryphal childhood; the teller of a story she only can tell. I have asked her about how he met my father, what happened between them, and why my father disappeared from our lives, and why she remarried a man who

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This is a philosophical poem, part of a series on fictional dogs of famous philosophers. I have p... more This is a philosophical poem, part of a series on fictional dogs of famous philosophers. I have poems on Kant, Habermas, Adorno's dogs. There are others but I forget. I want to write one on Plato's dog, but I am not sure what dog to give him. Happy New Year.

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This is the latest of my poems of philosophers' dogs, real and fictitious. I am still trying to f... more This is the latest of my poems of philosophers' dogs, real and fictitious. I am still trying to figure out what kind of dog Walter Benjamin should have had, or could have had.

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This is a playful poem on Habermas, who was/is my teacher, mentor, and friend. One of the most po... more This is a playful poem on Habermas, who was/is my teacher, mentor, and friend. One of the most powerful minds of the last 100 years. Many things in this poem are made up, but some are factual. I have been for a long time engaging his work from the the angle of the "animal question"--as I have other critical theorists. This playful poem was written before the one on Adorno's Chihuahua. I think I posted the one on Kant's dog.

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This a playful poem, part of a series of Critical Theorists and their [real or fictional] dogs. I... more This a playful poem, part of a series of Critical Theorists and their [real or fictional] dogs. I have fun imagining what relationship Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas, Kant had with their imaginal dogs. There are already similar poems on Kant and Habermas's dogs.

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This is a paper from a conference held at Boston College in November of 2017. The theme of the co... more This is a paper from a conference held at Boston College in November of 2017. The theme of the conference was Educating for Modern Democracy. I think the organizers had planned to do something with the papers from the conference, but nothing happened. At the core of the paper is the project of linking race, religion, the social imaginary and the need to create expiatory goats, sacrificial victims. In this case, I focus on Mexican Americans, Mexican and Latino/as in general.

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Inspired by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Enrique Chagoya, who in turn are inspired by Aztec codixes, ... more Inspired by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Enrique Chagoya, who in turn are inspired by Aztec codixes, I began working on a set of images to flank my collage. Eventually, this set of images will be one of the borders. But, I am working on a set of images that will be trying to follow Chagoya and Gomez-Pena to reflect on our police violence crisis.

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This is a detail of my collage in the making. Rockwell is one of my favorite illustrators. I love... more This is a detail of my collage in the making. Rockwell is one of my favorite illustrators. I love this image, but under the weight of our police brutality against Black Lives and Brown Lives, it has come to acquire a different symbolism. I can't look at Rockwell's image thinking that we are are seeing something monstrous.

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Inspired by the German artist John Heartfield and Mexican Jose Posada I set out to do my own Guer... more Inspired by the German artist John Heartfield and Mexican Jose Posada I set out to do my own Guernica like poster --for a cover of a book that I am co-editing. I am not finished.

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This is part of an archive that I have discovered. Apparently there are more of this manuscripts.

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Evidently this historic document has not being published. Nonetheless I want to share my prelimin... more Evidently this historic document has not being published. Nonetheless I want to share my preliminary investigations into the disappearance of Mendieta. I am now working on another revealing manuscript I have found in the mangled and faded, badly water damaged, and rat eaten, manuscripts archive of Mendieta's Macondo writings. It has to do with the tragic pandemic of 2020. It has been a titanic effort to decipher his archaic Colombian Spanish, but fortunately we now have the great monolingual world wide web. Enjoy.

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Critical Research on Religion , 2020

This is a review essay of Habermas's two volume work Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophy. Band 1:... more This is a review essay of Habermas's two volume work Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophy. Band 1: Die okzidentale Konstellation von Glauben and Wissen; Band 2: Vernünfitge Freiheit: Spuren des Diskurses über Glauben and Wissen. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2019.

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This is a poem about Kant and his dog, my hypothetical dog for Kant. Enjoy.

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Here is the Program for the Decolonizing Ethics: Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation Internatio... more Here is the Program for the Decolonizing Ethics: Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation International Symposium.

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The invention, production, and operation of race is entangled with the processes of subject forma... more The invention, production, and operation of race is entangled with the processes of subject formation. One of its most evident effects is the degradation of the subjectivity of those who are submitted to its conditions.

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This is the draft of talk I gave at Penn State University. The theme was "selfhood" and I chose t... more This is the draft of talk I gave at Penn State University. The theme was "selfhood" and I chose to take up this philosopheme from the perspective of our mechanical and artificial doppelgängers: androids, robots, and cyborgs. Just as the bestiary was a means for anthropological ventriloquism, I think that the zoo of robots allows us to reflect on what we take self-hood, agency, subjectivity and interiority to be or not to be, as the case may be.

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In this paper I am trying to think about what it means that Obama's two term presidency is coming... more In this paper I am trying to think about what it means that Obama's two term presidency is coming to an end. I canvassed for Obama. It was a historic election, but history thwarts our hopes, as I am sure Obama's were. King and X were killed...Obama was not...Is that progress? Perhaps. But he/we paved the way for Hilary. But iconicity is not change that matters to us brown folk, some way say. This essay is about trying to see beyond color blindness.

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This is the program for the conference on Decolonizing Ethics: Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation

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This publication is available in alternative media on request. Penn State encourages qualified pe... more This publication is available in alternative media on request. Penn State encourages qualified persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please consult Emily Slimak (814-863-5852) in advance of your participation or visit. Penn State is an equal opportunity, afirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected vetern status. U.Ed.LBS18-319

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This conference aims to discuss the pertinence of decolonizing philosophy in the Americas and the... more This conference aims to discuss the pertinence of decolonizing philosophy in the Americas and the different tasks involved in making it possible, specifically from a Latin American and Latinx perspective.

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The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism, 2024

This is the cover and the announcement of my forthcoming book: The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopo... more This is the cover and the announcement of my forthcoming book: The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism. The book is being published by SUNY Press. I love the cover.

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Power, Neoliberalism, and the Reinvention of Politics, 2022

This is the cover of our latest book on Wendy Brown. The chapters, plus Wendy Brown's two chapter... more This is the cover of our latest book on Wendy Brown. The chapters, plus Wendy Brown's two chapters are outstanding

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Power, Neoliberalism, and the Reinvention of Politics: The Critical Theory of Wendy Brown, 2022

This is the cover of our latest book in the series in Penn State Series in Critical Theory. Here ... more This is the cover of our latest book in the series in Penn State Series in Critical Theory. Here is the link:

https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09334-5.html

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The Ethics of Policing: New Perspectives on Law Enforcement, 2021

This is an edited collection of paper on the ethics of policing that Ben Jones and I edited. The ... more This is an edited collection of paper on the ethics of policing that Ben Jones and I edited. The volume came out of a conference we organized at Penn State University. The contributions are stellar and should be useful in helping us move the conversation on "law enforcement" in the US.

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Decolonizing Ethics: The Critical Theory of Enrique Dussel, 2021

Enrique Dussel is Latin America' s foremost philosopher, renowned for his contributions to ethics... more Enrique Dussel is Latin America' s foremost philosopher, renowned for his contributions to ethics, political philosophy, and liberation theology. Designed for classroom use, this collection of essays engages with Dussel' s encyclopedic work, making his valuable contributions accessible to En-glish-speaking students. In addition to being one of the most original, prolific, and widely known members of the Latin American Philosophy of Liberation movement, Dus-sel has also made important contributions to world philosophy, the history of philosophy, the history of the Catholic Church in Latin America, and the understanding of Karl Marx. Dussel famously engaged in a decade-long debate with Karl-Otto Apel on the relationship between material and formal ethics-that is, between an ethics of the community of life and an ethics of the community of discourse-and he has produced novel interpretations and analyses of the concepts of alterity, exteriority, the other, and the world history of ethical systems. Most recently, Dussel extended his work on an ethics of liberation into a politics of liberation, developed over the course of three published volumes. In this book, scholars from around the world assess Dussel' s work in ways that are both appreciative and critical. Two essays by Dussel bookend the volume: the collection opens with a consideration of the (im)possibility of multiple modernities and ends with an autobiographical trajectory of the philosopher' s thinking. In addition to Dussel and the editors, the contributors to this volume include

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Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism , 2021

This book is based on a series of lecture Rorty gave in 1996 in Girona as part of the Ferrater Mo... more This book is based on a series of lecture Rorty gave in 1996 in Girona as part of the Ferrater Mora Chair. It is Rorty's most comprehensive articulation of his take on pragmatism. The book was published in Spanish and Catalan, but Rorty did not publish it in English, although he clearly meant it as a coherent presentation of his version of pragmatism. It has a powerful forward by Robert Brandom. I wrote an epilogue that provides the bibliographical apparatus and attempts to explain why Rorty let this book go, so to say.

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New York University Press, 2021

From George Floyd to Breonna Taylor, the brutal deaths of Black citizens at the hands of law enfo... more From George Floyd to Breonna Taylor, the brutal deaths of Black citizens at the hands of law enforcement have brought race and policing to the forefront of national debate in the United States. In The Ethics of Policing, Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars across the social sciences and humanities to reevaluate the role of the police and the ethical principles that guide their work. With contributors such as Tracey Meares, Michael Walzer, and Franklin Zimring, this volume covers timely topics including race and policing, the use of aggressive tactics and deadly force, police abolitionism, and the use of new technologies like drones, body cameras, and predictive analytics, providing different perspectives on the past, present, and future of policing, with particular attention to discriminatory practices that have historically targeted Black and Brown communities. This volume offers cutting-edge insight into the ethical challenges facing the police and the institutions that oversee them. As high-profile cases of police brutality spark protests around the country, The Ethics of Policing raises questions about the proper role of law enforcement in a democratic society.

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Decolonizing Ethics: Enrique Dussel's Critical Theory, 2021

This is the cover of our next volume in the Penn State Series in Critical Theory. It dedicated to... more This is the cover of our next volume in the Penn State Series in Critical Theory. It dedicated to Enrique Dussel's critical theory, with a focus on his ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of history.

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Justification and Emancipation: The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst, 2019

This is a flyer promoting the book Amy Allen and I edited on Rainer Forst's work. The book came o... more This is a flyer promoting the book Amy Allen and I edited on Rainer Forst's work. The book came out from a symposium we organized at Penn State. If you are interested in Frankfurt School Theory, and its latest developments, you want to read this wonderful collection. With this flyer, you get a 30 % off.

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Justification and Emancipation: The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst, 2019

This is the introduction to the volume Amy Allen and I edited on Rainer's Forst work.

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Justification and Emancipation: The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst, 2019

This is the cover of the volume Prof. Allen and I edited on the work of Rainer Forst. The book ju... more This is the cover of the volume Prof. Allen and I edited on the work of Rainer Forst. The book just came out. It has essays by Rainer Forst, Amy Allen, John Chirstman, Mattias Iser, Catherine Lu, John P. McCormick, Melissa Yates. Sarah Clark Miller, and a response to the critical essays by Rainer

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Justification and Emancipation: The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst, 2019

This is the cover for the next volume in our Penn State Series on Critical Theory. This is a foll... more This is the cover for the next volume in our Penn State Series on Critical Theory. This is a follow up volume to the one on Rahel Jaeggi. The next one will be on Enrique Dussel, to be followed by one on Wendy Brown.

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Cambridge Habermas Lexicon Discount Flyer, 2019

For more information, and to order, visit: www.cambridge.org/9781107172029 and enter the code ALL... more For more information, and to order, visit: www.cambridge.org/9781107172029 and enter the code ALLEN19 at the checkout The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon Over a career spanning nearly seven decades, Jürgen Habermas-one of the most important European philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-has produced a prodigious and influential body of work. In this Lexicon, authored by an international team of scholars, over 200 entries define and explain the key concepts, categories, philosophemes, themes, debates, and names associated with the entire constellation of Habermas's thought. The entries explore the historical, philosophical and social-theoretic roots of these terms and concepts, as well as their intellectual and disciplinary contexts, to build a broad but detailed picture of the development and trajectory of Habermas as a thinker. The volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Habermas, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, political science, sociology, international relations, cultural studies, and law. on this title 3 March 2020 Expires

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Cambridge Habermas Lexicon , 2019

This is the front matter to the massive Cambridge Habermas Lexicon that Amy Allen and I edited. T... more This is the front matter to the massive Cambridge Habermas Lexicon that Amy Allen and I edited. The book will be available in April. This is now the go to bibliographical resource on Habermas expansive work. The entries are truly comprehensive, and some are rightly critical, but also informative. Hope you enjoy it.

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The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorist... more The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious metaphysical baggage, and made fruitful for critical theory in the twenty-first century. In this thorough introduction to Jaeggi' s work for English-speaking audiences, scholars assess and critique her efforts to revitalize critical theory. Jaeggi' s innovative work reclaims key concepts of Hegelian-Marxist social philosophy and reads them through the lens of such thinkers as Adorno, Heidegger, and Dewey, while simultaneously putting them into dialogue with contemporary analytic philosophy. Structured for classroom use, this critical introduction to Rahel Jaeggi is an insightful and generative confrontation with the most recent transformation of Frankfurt School–inspired social and philosophical critical theory. This volume features an essay by Jaeggi on moral progress and social change, essays by leading scholars engaging with her conceptual analysis of alienation and the critique of forms of life, and a Q&A between Jaeggi and volume coeditor Amy Allen. For scholars and students wishing to engage in the debate with key contemporary thinkers over the past, present, and future(s) of critical theory, this volume will be transformative.

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This is a flyer for a book that Justin Beaumont, from the Netherlands, edited on the theme of Pos... more This is a flyer for a book that Justin Beaumont, from the Netherlands, edited on the theme of Postsecularity. I have an entry on postsecularity and postmetaphysical thinking in the work of Habermas. Justin and I co-authored the Afterword, which discusses research agendas suggested by the stellar contributions to this timely volume. I hope you will ask your library to get a copy

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" It is hard to overestimate the value of this volume for anyone approaching Habermas's thought. ... more " It is hard to overestimate the value of this volume for anyone approaching Habermas's thought. Allen and Mendieta have gathered an outstanding group of contributors, and the choice of concepts and topics is superb. No other living philosopher's work has more half-baked and completely unbaked opinions circulating around it. is volume should help ameliorate that problem and make the writings of this famously di cult thinker a good deal easier to engage. It is a real gem of scholarship. " STEPHEN K. W HITE John Hart Professor of Politics, University of Virginia Over a career spanning nearly seven decades, Jürgen Habermas – one of the most important European philosophers of the twentieth and twenty -rst centuries – has produced a prodigious and in uential body of work. In this Lexicon, authored by an international team of scholars, over 200 entries de ne and explain the key concepts, categories, philos-ophemes, themes, debates, and names associated with the entire constellation of Habermas's thought. e entries explore the historical, philosophical and social-theoretic roots of these terms and concepts, as well as their intellectual and disciplinary contexts, to build a broad but detailed picture of the development and trajectory of Habermas as a thinker. e volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Habermas, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, political science, sociology, international relations, cultural studies, and law.

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2018

Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and tran... more Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders. The book addresses a variety of topics connected with the role of the body at the threshold between subjective identities and intersubjective spaces that are drawn in ontology, epistemology and ethics, as well as with borders inscribed in intersubjective, social, and political spaces (such as gender/sexuality/race, human/animal/nature/technology divisions).
The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the “border” in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres – from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness.

TOC:
Tomaž Grušovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart Škof
Introduction
Part I: Bordering Topologies
Chapter 1: Edward S. Casey
Moving Over the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies
Chapter 2: Mary Watkins
From Hospitality to Mutual Accompaniment: Addressing Soul Loss in the Citizen-Neighbor
Chapter 3: Eduardo Mendieta
Lethal Borders and Mobile Panopticons: Thanatological Dispositifs
Chapter 4: Helena Motoh
Borders in Between—The Concept of Border(ing) in Early Chinese History
Part II: Debordering Praxes
Chapter 5: Victor Forte
Buddhist Nationalism and Marginalizing Rhetoric in a Dependently Originated World
Chapter 6: Mary Leonard
Borders and Debordering in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography: Icon, Mosaic, and Flow
Chapter 7: Reingard Spannring
The Chicken and the Educator: Debordering Critical Pedagogy in the Anthropocene
Chapter 8: Tomaž Grušovnik
Debordering Ethics: Acknowledging Animal Morality
Part III: Worlding Hospitableness
Chapter 9: Klaus-Gerd Giesen
Debordering Academia: From the Philosophy of Hospitality to the Practice of Hospitableness
Chapter 10: Petri BerndtsonCultivating a Respiratory and Aerial Culture of Hospitality
Chapter 11: Lenart Škof
Lamentation for a Child: On Migration, Vulnerability, and Ethics of Hospitality
Chapter 12: Shé Hawke
Graft versus Host: Waters that Convey and Harbors that Reject Liminal Subjects—Towards a New Ethics of Hospitality

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Unraveling the Anthropocene Podcast, 2021

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The link to the podcast is here:

https://sites.psu.edu/liberalartscollective/episode-10-pandemics-as-a-politics-of-death-in-the-anthropocene-is-a-virus-a-dispositif/

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https://craghi.libsyn.com/website

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YouTube: https://youtube.com/jorgezunigam

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NYU Press Blog From the Square, 2021

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