E Mendieta
Biographic Data
| ID | 31008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Mendieta |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendieta |
| SIGNATURE | MENDIETA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0903-885X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 94 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Robot Therapy
This essay explores how robots and artificial social agents allow us to engage in original and challenging ethical self-reflection. Rather than simply mirrors or simply puppets of our moral ventriloquism or simply living out our moral faults or virtues, I contend that robots are also unique moral interlocutors that push us to engage in a new form of ethics: what Dumouchel and Damiano call artificial ethics. My contention is that when we look at t…
The Aristotelian Robot
In this essay an engineer and a philosopher, after many conversations, develop an argument for why the Aristotelian version of virtue ethics is the most promising way to develop what we call artificial moral, social agents, i.e. robots. This, evidently, applies to humans as well. There are several claims: first, that humans are not born moral, they are socialized into morality; second, that morality involves affect, emotion, feeling, before it en…
On Necropolitics
This is a brief introduction to a special section on the work of Achille Mbembe
La dialettica della colonialità. Verso una coscienza decoloniale postsecolare
Challenges and opportunities of water quality monitoring and multi-stakeholder management in small islands
Sustainable water resources management roots in monitoring data reliability and a full engagement of all institutions involved in the water sector. When competences and interests are overlapping, however, coordination may be difficult, thus hampering cooperative actions. This is the case of Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos, Ecuador). A comprehensive assessment on water quality data (physico-chemical parameters, major elements, trace elements and coli…
Paolo Costa
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Developing an Online Data Ethics Module Informed by an Ecology of Data Perspective
Epilogue
Epilogue
Decolonizing Blackness, Decolonizing Theology
James H. Cone is without question the most important Black Theologian of the last century in U.S. theology. This essay is an engagement with his work, focusing in particular on the shifts from European theology, in his Black Theology & Black Power, to Black Aesthetic Religious production, in The Spirituals & The Blues, to The Cross and the Lynching Tree. The core theme of this essay is the entanglement of spiritual/religious colonization with pro…
Enlightened religion
The Presumption of Undocumentation and Revoked Citizenship
Antinomies of a Pandemic
The essay considers three classic definitions of philosophy, namely those offered by Socrates, Boethius, as semantically enriched by Montaigne, and Kant, in order to reflected on individual and collective death. Kant’s philosophical tool of the antinomies of reason is deployed to think through the antinomies of our pandemic in order to make clear that in a pandemic there is only collective, and not individual or even national, inoculation. The fa…
Toward a Decolonial Feminist Imaginary
This article takes up the work of Bottici, Cornell, and Perez in order to expand on Lugones's inchoate notion of a decolonial feminist imaginary. The claim is that decolonial feminism is also the elaboration of a decolonial feminist imaginary that challenges the colonial/modern imaginary of global capitalism. The article also takes up Lugones's critique of Mignolo's notion of “colonial difference,” which is found to be incoherent and even dangero…
Jürgen Habermas, Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophy. Band 1
Critique of Decolonial Reason
Reflexive secularization? Concepts, processes and antagonisms of postsecularity
This article deals with the concepts, processes, and antagonisms that are associated with the notion of postsecularity. In light of this article's expanded interpretation of José Casanova on the secular and secularization, as well as thoughts on James A. Beckford's take on public religions, five rubrics on the postsecular derived from critical theory and an understanding of 'reflexive secularization' are presented. This term focuses on seculariza…
Edge City
Humans built cities, but cities are where we become civil, civilized, and civically minded; we are thus products of cities. Cities are also ubiquitous in the human experience. Yet, the last two hundred years witnessed an unprecedented mega-urbanization of humanity. In 2007, or so, it was announced that more humans now lived in cities than in the countryside. This article aims to analyze the new pattern of mega-urbanization in the twenty-first cen…
The creature of language
The Axial Age, social evolution, and postsecular consciousness
This article focuses on Karl Jaspers's notion of the Axial Age, some of its critical appropriation, and how in particular Habermas has returned to this idea, after several critical engagements with Jaspers's work through his long scholarly productivity. The article, however, centers on Habermas's selective and critical use of Jaspers's notion in his own latest and extensive engagement with what he calls "a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking."…
“What it means to be human!”
This conversation with Cornel West about his views on philosophical anthropology, race, U.S. history, tragedy, German philosophy, and theology includes lengthy discussions on former U.S. president Barack Obama, his policies, and his failure to live up to the promise of black prophetic thought
Identities
Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity
Beyond Philosophy
Part 1 I. General Hypotheses Chapter 2 Domination-Liberation: A New Approach Chapter 3 The Bread of the Eucharist Celebration as a Sign of Justice in the Community Chapter 4 The World-System: Europe as Center and its Periphery Beyond Eurocentrism Part 5 II. Liberating Theology Chapter 6 The Kingdom of God and the Poor Chapter 7 'Populus Dei' in Populo Pauperum: From Vatican II to Medellin and Puebla Chapter 8 Exodus as a Paradigm in Liberation Th…
Thinking from the underside of history
Chapter 1 1: Introduction by Linda Martin Alcoff and Eduardo Mendieta Chapter 2 2: Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation: and Geopolitics of Knowledge by Walter D. Mingnolo Chapter 3 3: The Material Principle and the Formal Principle in Dussel's by James L. Marsh Chapter 4 4: Can Ethics Be Assimilated under Ethics? by Karl-Otto Apel Chapter 5 5: Discourse and Liberation: Toward a Critical Coordination of Discourse and Dussel's of Liberation by Hans S…
From imperial to dialogical cosmopolitanism
We can now survey the ruins of a Babelian tower of discourse about cosmopolitanism. We speak of 'elite travel lounge,' 'Davos,' 'banal' as well as of 'reflexive,' 'really existing,' 'patriotic,' and 'horizontal' cosmopolitanisms. Here, an attempt is made to extract what is normative and ideal in the concept of cosmopolitanism by foregrounding the epistemic and moral dimensions of this attitude toward the world and other cultures. Kant, in a rathe…
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Of the numerous topics current philosophy is attentive to certainly the issue of religion is central. This anthology starts with Jürgen Habermas' notion of "the public sphere" and works to connect this notion to the issue of religion. Of course, religion has long been part of the public sphere. For much of human history, people established their various formations of society and state in a manner continuous with religion. Their discourses were co…
Reflexive secularization? Concepts, processes and antagonisms of postsecularity
This article deals with the concepts, processes, and antagonisms that are associated with the notion of postsecularity. In light of this article's expanded interpretation of José Casanova on the secular and secularization, as well as thoughts on James A. Beckford's take on public religions, five rubrics on the postsecular derived from critical theory and an understanding of 'reflexive secularization' are presented. This term focuses on seculariza…
Being-with as Making Worlds
This introductory essay provides a background to the writings of Peter Sloterdijk. It begins with a discussion of writings translated into English in the late 1980s-the Critique of Cynical Reason and Thinker on Stage-but then shows how Sloterdijk's work has developed and changed over the last two decades. Particular attention is paid to his writings on Europe and politics; the three-volume book Sphären [Spheres]; and his most recent writings on g…
Plantations, ghettos, prisons
In the first part of this essay, I develop the argument that Michel Foucault's work should be read with geographical and topological ideas in mind. I argue that Foucault's archeology and genealogy are fundamentally determined by spatial, topological, geographical, and geometrical metaphors and concepts. This spatial dimension of genealogy is explicitly related to racism and the regimes that domesticate agents through the practices, institutions a…
The Axial Age, social evolution, and postsecular consciousness
This article focuses on Karl Jaspers's notion of the Axial Age, some of its critical appropriation, and how in particular Habermas has returned to this idea, after several critical engagements with Jaspers's work through his long scholarly productivity. The article, however, centers on Habermas's selective and critical use of Jaspers's notion in his own latest and extensive engagement with what he calls "a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking."…
Penalized spaces
Even for those who have been following Loic Wacquant's work over the last decade, and for whom Urban Outcasts may offer no surprises, the publication of this intense, eloquent, timely and damning b
Imperial geographies and topographies of nihilism
In this first piece, Eduardo Mendieta considers the relationship between empires, cities and war. It focuses particularly on the emergence of geopolitics as science at the service of empire building and the 20th‐century escalation to total war against cities. The focus, however, is not on European empires, but the American empire, which since the 19th century has developed its own type of geopolitics and means of waging war. Mendieta discusses st…
The city to come
Critical urban theory is a reflexive project with practical intent that engages our present situation in order to map humane paths to the future. At the heart of critical urban theory is the critique of the actually existing city and the unmasking of the ways in which its topography has been the result of different economic, political, social and cultural processes that are neither ad hoc nor inevitable. As a deconstructive/constructive project, …
Interspecies Cosmopolitanism
Hacer vivir y dejar morir
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
The axle of evil
Exposing one of the latest manifestations of anti‐urbanism today, Eduardo Mendieta dissects in this essay the production, dissemination, and consumption of a new discourse of urban fear. He takes as his starting point the SUV, or Sport Utility Vehichle, which simultaneously represents and replicates the main tropes of this discourse. In the image of the gas‐guzzling, martial‐like SUV, Mendieta sees a ‘double negation of the urban.’ Insofar as the…
Critique of Decolonial Reason
The politics of terror and the neoliberal military minimalist state
The decade anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attack is considered from the standpoint of three trends that synergized what can be called a new form of governmentality. First, the author considers the recrudescence of the military-surveillance state that in a paternalistic and biopolitical fashion must do its utmost to secure the ‘safety’ of its population. Second, and simultaneously, the triumph of the neoliberal ideology that spells the dismantl…
The production of urban space in the age of transnational mega‐urbes
There is no philosopher who should be more closely associated with '68 than Lefebvre, especially if it is recognized that this historical moment had to do with the explosion of the urban, and a concomitant assault on the colonization of everyday life by the technocratic forces of capitalist commercialization. This paper aims to briefly underscore the three pivots around which Lefebvre’s work gravitates and how they are both intervention and refle…
Ni orientalismo ni occidentalismo
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
The city and the philosopher
Philosophy projects a certain understanding of reason that is related to the ways in which the city figures in its imaginary. Conversely, the city is a practice of spatialization that determines the ways in which agents are able, or unable, to live out their social agency. This essay focuses on the ways in which philosophy and the city's spatializing practices and imaginaries inform differential ways of living out social agency. The thrust of the…
Identity and liberation
How we divide history into periods is always a matter of debate. Like maps, historical markers are tainted by arbitrariness and ideology. Yet periodizations and the great blocks that divide the historical continuum into semi‐discrete identities still retain some usefulness. In contrast to other periods in the human history, our epoch—often called modernity—is characterized by the dominance of subjectivity and its concomitant, identity. Indeed, fr…
Enlightened religion
On Left Kantianism
Genealogy of Critique is critical theory at its best: informed by incisive intellectual reconstructions, guided by immanent critique, and aiming at practical transformations that speak to our unique historical challenges. This book is a superlative contribution to the contemporary problematic of what it means to be modern in the age of genocides and suspect universalisms. Let me, however, lay out why I think Koopman's work is a unique contributio…
The Sound of Race
The legal orthopedia of human dignity
This article develops a constructivist, non-metaphysical, non-essentialist conception of human dignity using Jeremy Waldron, Michael Rosen, Ernst Bloch, Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth. This constructivist conception of dignity is then related to the communicative or reflexive conception of freedom developed by discourse ethics. Then, these two conceptions are demonstrated to be foundational for the development and implementation of human rights
Medellín and Bogotá
Two cities from Colombia, Medellín and Bogotá, are studied as exemplars of the ways in which globalization and colonialism have shaped and continue to shape the cartographies of global mega‐urbanization. The first part offers a discussion of the processes of political integration without territorial unification that characterized the development of the emergent nations in Latin America after independence in the early part of the 19th century. In …
On 'the urbanism of nothing
The following informal discussion by e-mail arose in the process of discussing the issue title for 15.1. It began from a sense, frequently explored in City, that urbanism, at the same time as 'the urban revolution' or 'The Age of Cities' is being uncritically asserted, is on the edge of a possibly terminal crisis and that some(not all) manifestations described as 'rurban' are a sign of this. Maros Krivy's exploratory paper in that issue on 'Specu…
Scholar’s Symposium
Lógica, Lecciones de M. Heidegger
Recommended books
War and Peace Through Women's Eyes: A Selective Bibliography of Twentieth‐Century American Women's Fiction. Susanne Carter (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992). The Past As Future. Jürgen Habermas (interviewed by Michael Heller) (translated by Max Pensky) (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994)
A new theological paradigm
Theology, like philosophy, and any science that deals with humanity in general, embodies the self‐perceptions of the society where it is pursued. We can see these perceptions illustrated by comparing two major theological traditions: conventional European theologies and Latin American liberation theologies
Discourse ethics and liberation ethics
L'A. souligne la complementarite de l'ethique du discours de Apel et de l'ethique de la liberation de Dussel, en ce sens qu'ils redefinissent et rearticulent les frontieres entre les notions du soi, de societe (monde) et de transcendance (Dieu). Tous deux ouvrent la voie a une nouvelle theorie morale en insistant a leur maniere sur les frontieres du discours philosophique
Zur Anwendung der Diskursethik in Politik, Recht und Wissenschaft
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Teaching Young Children in Violent Times: Building a Peaceable Plassroom. Diane E. Levin. (Cambridge, MA: Educators for Social Responsibility, 1994). Historical Change & Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1994. Edited by Olwen Hufton (New York: Basic Books, 1995). Excellent Cadavers. Alexander Stille. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1995)
Discourse ethics' before the challenge of 'liberation philosophy
Mesurant la contribution d'E. Dussel au dialogue concernant la relation entre l'ethique du discours et la philosophie de la liberation, l'A. confronte la conception d'une economie transcendantale, developpee par Dussel, a sa propre conception realiste des rapports conflictuels entre le Nord et le Sud
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Reflexive Modernization: Polities, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modem Social Order. Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens & Scott Lash. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994). The Spirit of Freedom: South African Leaders on Religion and Politics. Charles Villa‐Vicencio. Foreword by Thomas G. Karis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). Interviews with Neville Alexander, Ray Alexander, Franz Auerbach, Cheryl Carolus, Frank Chikane, Shee…
Identity and liberation
How we divide history into periods is always a matter of debate. Like maps, historical markers are tainted by arbitrariness and ideology. Yet periodizations and the great blocks that divide the historical continuum into semi‐discrete identities still retain some usefulness. In contrast to other periods in the human history, our epoch—often called modernity—is characterized by the dominance of subjectivity and its concomitant, identity. Indeed, fr…
La Alterización Del Otro
Es parte esencial de la hegemonia de una ideologia que la misma sea asimilada por aquellos a quienes se supone esta debe controlar.La nocion de ideologia implica por lo menos una forma de disimular el poder a traves de la saturacion de todo aspecto de la vida.El poder es precisamente ejercido a traves del acto de localizarse uno mismo en el espacio social.El Otro no puede hablar, ni representarse a si mismo por que se ye por medio de los ojos del…
Recommended books
A Berliner Republic: Writings on Germany. Jürgen Habermas. Translated by Steven Rendall. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997). Girls and Warzones: Troubling Questions. Carolyn Nordstrom. (Uppsala, Sweden: Life & Peace Institute, 1997). Mozambique: UN Peacekeeping in Action 1992–1994. Richard Synge. (Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1997)
Kombiniert transseptale- transnasale Chirurgie einseitiger Choanalatresien ohne Verwendung von Platzhaltern1
Because of these results, it is recommended to treat unilateral choanal atresias of adults and children older than five years by using a combined transseptal-transnasal procedure. By using the described surgical technique postoperative stenting can be avoided.
Recommended Books
The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States after the Cold War Richard N. Haass. (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1997). The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries Michael J. Perry. (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren. (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1997)
Educating the Political Imaginary
María Pía Lara's two books, La Democracia como proyecto de identidad ética and Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere are described and analyzed. Her contribution to a feminist left-Habermasian theory of the relationship between the aesthetic dimension and the political imaginary are discussed. Questions and concerns, however, are raised regarding the assumptions of universal pragmatics and Lara's attempt to offer a positive rea…
Educating the Political Imaginary
María Pía Lara's two books, La Democracia como proyecto de identidad ética and Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere are described and analyzed. Her contribution to a feminist left-Habermasian theory of the relationship between the aesthetic dimension and the political imaginary are discussed. Questions and concerns, however, are raised regarding the assumptions of universal pragmatics and Lara's attempt to offer a positive rea…
Invisible cities
The city and the philosopher
Philosophy projects a certain understanding of reason that is related to the ways in which the city figures in its imaginary. Conversely, the city is a practice of spatialization that determines the ways in which agents are able, or unable, to live out their social agency. This essay focuses on the ways in which philosophy and the city's spatializing practices and imaginaries inform differential ways of living out social agency. The thrust of the…
The city and the philosopher
The ‘Second Reconquista’, or Why should a ‘Hispanic’ become a philosopher
Leonard Harris, Racism
El debate sobre el futuro de la especie humana
En este artículo se discute el reciente libro de Jürgen Habermas, Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur. Auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001). Se presta especial atención al argumento central relacionado con los efectos negativos que podría tener la aceptación general de la clonación y el diagnóstico génico preimplantacional (DGP) sobre la autocomprensión moral y política de las generaciones presentes y futuras. La discusió…
Utopian Bodies
Has Religion Gone Global
Politics and Prisons
Reports, Interviews, Reviews
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