This past March (2015), I was honored with a couple of invitations to Mexico to lecture on some topics of interest to me. My first stop was at the Benemérita […]

In his intellectual biography of Octavio Paz, Octavio Paz en su siglo (2014), Christopher Domínguez Michael, in his usual disparaging tone, calls the existential philosophy of el grupo Hiperion, “mexicanosofía,” […]

When Robert and I first thought about starting this blog, the purpose, as we saw it, was to keep a running record of our adventures in translation. While that is […]

An important, and rare, work on the history of Mexican philosophy in the 20th century, Oswaldo Díaz Ruanova’s Los Existencialistas Mexicanos (1982) [The Mexican Existentialists] paints a portrait of Jorge […]

Since this is a public forum, I’d like to ask the public for some input on an odd passage I found in Aurelia Valero Pie’s collection “Filosofia y Vocacion.” In […]

Common questions asked of us who teach and write on “Latin American” philosophy (or, in my case, “Mexican” philosophy) include the following (always asked in a somewhat passive-aggressive tone): What […]

My aim here is to talk about an encounter with an event. The event is the brief, yet intense, emergence of el grupo Hiperión that, between 1948 and 1952, embraced […]