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 […]

“Esencial es de un filósofo cierta condición de permanente desacuerdo y disgusto, que no se concilia con el profesionalismo … Quizá ninguna facultad del espíritu es más opuesta al encasillamiento y a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]