Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Us toward the Good Life (Guides to the Good Life)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sánchez, Carlos Alberto

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Mexican philosophy has been relegated for far too long to the margins of philosophy's global scene. Carlos Alberto Sánchez brings it to the front and centre by demonstrating that its figures, methods, and texts, supplement, enrich, and broaden the scope and depth of both philosophy and our everyday understanding. Explaining the context and thinkers associated with relajo, zozobra, nepantla, corazonada, tik, and Mexistentialism, Sánchez goes beyond a standard introduction of Mexican philosophy. His sustained analysis of prominent concepts gives us a new vocabulary for understanding ourselves and the world we live in. Based on the concrete experience of Mexican life, we are introduced to influential thinkers and uniquely Mexican themes: the primacy of history and circumstance and the intrinsic value of community. Powered by a commitment to use Mexican philosophy to navigate the perplexing world we inhabit, Sánchez challenges the blanket application of Eurocentric philosophy to our 21st-century concerns. This is an essential starting point for Latin American philosophy scholars and anyone approaching Mexican philosophy for the very first time.

Mexican Philosophy for the 21st Century: Relajo, Zozobra, and Other Frameworks for Understanding Our World (Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies)

Bloomsbury Academic

The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

First in-depth analysis of this important Mexican philosopher’s work. The Suspension of Seriousness engages the Mexican philosopher Jorge Portilla (1919–1963), taking note of Portilla’s philosophical methodology, insights, and contributions to our understanding of value, being, and subjectivity. Portilla lived a short, troubled life and never held a teaching appointment, but his works, though few in number, were nevertheless philosophically penetrating. He is a legendary character in the Mexican popular imagination of the 1940s and ’50s, but little has been written about him or his philosophy. His posthumously published Fenomenología del relajo is a phenomenological analysis of what Portilla calls “relajo” or the state we assume when we do not want to do what is seriously being asked of us—what is demanded of us. It is, Portilla says, “the suspension of seriousness.” Carlos Alberto Sánchez uses Portilla’s Fenomenología del relajo as a point of departure to consider the dangers both of our uncritical adherence to values as well as our urge to reject values altogether. He argues that Portilla provides a framework in which to situate the modern condition, ourselves, and our future. The first authorized English translation of Portilla’s Fenomenología del relajo is included. “The Suspension of Seriousness is an in-depth scrutiny of a critical aspect of human consciousness and behavior, highly recommended for the philosophy shelves of college and graduate school libraries.” — Midwest Book Review

The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, With a Translation of Fenomenología del relajo (Latin Amer Iberian Thought)

History

State University of New York Press

Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English. This book examines the emergence of existentialism in Mexico in the 1940s and the quest for a genuine Mexican philosophy that followed it. It focuses on the pivotal moments and key figures of the Hyperion group, including Emilio Uranga, Luis Villoro, Leopoldo Zea, and Jorge Portilla, who explored questions of interpretation, marginality, identity, and the role of philosophy. Carlos Alberto Sánchez was the first to introduce and emphasize the philosophical significance of the Hyperion group to readers of English in The Suspension of Seriousness, and in the present volume he examines its legacy and relevancy for the twenty-first century. Sánchez argues that there are lessons to be learned from Hyperion’s project not only for Latino/a life in the United States but also for the lives of those on the fringes of contemporary, postmodern or postcolonial, economic, political, and cultural power.

Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy (Latin Amer Iberian Thought)

Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English. This book examines the emergence of existentialism in Mexico in the 1940s and the quest for a genuine Mexican philosophy that followed it. It focuses on the pivotal moments and key figures of the Hyperion group, including Emilio Uranga, Luis Villoro, Leopoldo Zea, and Jorge Portilla, who explored questions of interpretation, marginality, identity, and the role of philosophy. Carlos Alberto Sánchez was the first to introduce and emphasize the philosophical significance of the Hyperion group to readers of English in The Suspension of Seriousness, and in the present volume he examines its legacy and relevancy for the twenty-first century. Sánchez argues that there are lessons to be learned from Hyperion’s project not only for Latino/a life in the United States but also for the lives of those on the fringes of contemporary, postmodern or postcolonial, economic, political, and cultural power.

Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher's social, cultural, and political writings.

The Disintegration of Community: On Jorge Portilla's Social and Political Philosophy, With Translations of Selected Essays (Latin Amer Iberian Thought)

Gallegos, Francisco

The Disintegration of Community analyzes the social and cultural writings of Jorge Portilla (1919-1963) in order to demonstrate the continued relevance of his thought. Carlos Alberto Sánchez and Francisco Gallegos situate Portilla's otros ensayos--a series of essays originally published with his more widely known Fenomenología del relajo--at the center of the contemporary debates on the politics of social and cultural identity, the nature of community, and the political role of affect and moods. Sánchez and Gallegos address questions as timely today as they were for Portilla: What drives the impulse toward political nationalism? What sustains the myths that organize our political lives? Under what conditions do communities disintegrate? To answer these questions, the authors seek to think with Portilla by analyzing his writing and to think after Portilla by bringing his critical spirit to bear on the present. An appendix with original English translations of Portilla's three otros ensayos enables the reader to do the same.

Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture that appears to feed on murder and brutality while being fed by a romanticism about power and capital. Carlos Alberto Sánchez uses Mexican narco-culture as a point of departure for thinking about the nature and limits of violence, culture, and personhood.&nbsp;A Sense of Brutality&nbsp;argues that violent cultural modalities, of which narco-culture is but one, call into question our understanding of "violence" as a concept. The reality of narco-violence suggests that "violence" itself is insufficient to capture it, that we need to redeploy and reconceptualize "brutality" as a concept that better captures this reality. Brutality is more than violence, other to cruelty, and distinct from horror and terror--all concepts that are normally used interchangeably with brutality, but which, as the analysis suggests, ought not to be. In narco-culture, the normalization of brutality into everyday life is a condition upon which the absolute erasure or derealization of people is made possible.

A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture

Amherst College Press

From Epistemic Justification to Philosophical Authenticity: A Study in Husserl's Phenomenological Epistemology

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

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Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Us toward the Good Life (Guides to the Good Life)

Mexican Philosophy for the 21st Century: Relajo, Zozobra, and Other Frameworks for Understanding Our World (Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies)

Mexican Philosophy for the 21st Century: Relajo, Zozobra, and Other Frameworks for Understanding Our World (Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies)

The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, With a Translation of Fenomenología del relajo (Latin Amer Iberian Thought)

Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy (Latin Amer Iberian Thought)

Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy (Latin Amer Iberian Thought)

The Disintegration of Community: On Jorge Portilla's Social and Political Philosophy, With Translations of Selected Essays (Latin Amer Iberian Thought)

The Disintegration of Community: On Jorge Portilla's Social and Political Philosophy, With Translations of Selected Essays (Latin Amer Iberian Thought)

A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture

From Epistemic Justification to Philosophical Authenticity: A Study in Husserl's Phenomenological Epistemology