Draft of an Introduction to a future lecture series–Michoacan 2015
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 