La Diferencia
So I’m pouring over the early essays written by members of el Hiperion. At this time, late 1948, early 1949, Macgregor, Guerra, Portilla, Villoro and others appear fascinated by existential […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
The Imperial Passion I
In the “Introduction” to Filosofía y vocación, her edited collection of “seminar papers” written by José Gaos, Ricardo Guerra, Alejandro Rossi, Emilio Uranga and Luis Villoro, Aurelia Valero Pie gives […]
Philosophy in Practice
People ask, referring to a degree or education in philosophy, “What are you going to do with that?” And of course the only honest answer is, “Nothing.” You can add if you want, following Heidegger, […]
Pauses
I suppose the value, for me, of reading Mexican philosophy is that it gives me an occasion to reflect—or it moves me to thinking, not about Mexican philosophy, but about […]
The Value of Marginality
I came across these couple of paragraphs of Amy Oliver, who I hope won’t mind my sharing: Expounding on Leopoldo Zea’s notion of marginality: “Marginality is a gift to philosophers who […]
Uranga, Death, and Being Mexican
When I’m in Mexico, I am not Mexican. When I’m in LA with Korean, Black, and other ethnically diverse friends, I’m “the Mexican.” And when I am in Williamsburg or other parts of the […]
Thoughts on this project, or language, or I don’t know
Emilio Uranga, perhaps echoing Ortega (“Preface for Germans”), but certainly before Rorty and Lyotard, proclaimed that he knew “nothing of humanity in general” but only of “humanity in particular,” and […]
Para comenzar con algo personal…
Right before my grandpa passed away, he made it clear how unimpressed he was by my early academic career. I was a young graduate student trying to convince someone who owned a […]
We begin…
I spent 5 years at the University of New Mexico (from 2001-2006) trying to learn German, reading Husserl, Heidegger, Scheler, or all things genuinely phenomenological, and hoping not to suffer […]
20th Century Mexican Philosophy 