Rafael Vizcaíno
Biographic Data
| ID | 4629097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafael Vizcaíno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafael |
| FAMILY NAME | Vizcaíno |
| SIGNATURE | VIZCAÍNO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5694-4498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Words Made Flesh
The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World.” Whatever…
Postsecular Philosophy and Decolonization as a Political-Theological Struggle
The chapter follows the work of the Argentine Mexican philosopher and theologian Enrique Dussel to theorize aspects of the modern/colonial world as a political-theological problem. The chapter argues that pushing Dussel’s work to its ultimate conclusions helps us rethink and expand what goes by the name “political theology.” This is a reconceptualization that moves from conceiving of political theology as a method to envisioning it instead as an …
Postsecular Philosophy as Metaphoric Theology
This article articulates the ways in which the Argentine-Mexican philosopher and theologian Enrique Dussel advances a distinctly postsecularist and decolonial reinterpretation of the Marxist critique of religion. Specifically, this article explores Dussel’s Las metáforas teológicas de Marx [The Theological Metaphors of Marx], a text that exposes how Marx often deploys the Bible against the Christian in a way that presumes the original criticality…
Orospe Hernández, Mario. Biopolítica y liberación
Author(s): Vizcaíno, Rafael | Abstract: Orospe Hernández, Mario. Biopolítica y liberación: La noción de vida humana en Agamben y Dussel . Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2023. 198pp
Violence and the Sacred Revisited
In this article, I seek to contribute to the recent philosophical interest in the phenomenon of narco-culture. I build on the intervention initiated by Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (2020) by articulating the spiritually “generative” aspects of violence. For this endeavor, I turn to the French philosopher René Girard, whose work audaciously understands community-building and the maintenance of socia…
Sylvia Wynter’s New Science of the Word and the Autopoetics of the Flesh
This essay proposes that the work of Sylvia Wynter, a canonical figure in Afro-Caribbean philosophy, demonstrates other ways of doing philosophy, a comparative philosophy carried out as a cross-cultural exercise. Sylvia Wynter has argued for a “New Science of the Word” by drawing from the contributions of Frantz Fanon (sociogeny), Aimé Césaire (poetic knowledge), and the field of cybernetics, among other sources. This essay aims to explain the fr…
Fanny Söderbäck, Revolutionary Time
The Fetish Revisited
Introduction to Special Issue
Between the Decolonial and the Postcolonial
Traditional narratives of the emergence of the modern state locate the decisive moment at the 1648 Peace of Westphalia which resolved the last major religious conflict in European history, the Thir
Did You Listen? Zapatismo and Epistemic Decolonization
This essay looks at the Zapatista struggle in Southeast Mexico from the perspective of epistemic decolonization. I follow Walter Mignolo’s analysis of Zapatismo as a decolonial “theoretical revolution” and moreover build on it by articulating it in relation to other concepts in the decolonial theoretical toolkit, such as epistemic humility, pluriversality, and knowing how to listen. I conclude with an interpretation of recent events in the Zapati…
Decolonising Philosophy
Based on Maldonado-Torres’s formulation of the term, we conceive the decolonial turn as a form of liberating and decolonising reason beyond the liberal and Enlightened emancipation of rationality, and beyond the more radical Euro-critiques that have failed to consistently challenge the legacies of Eurocentrism and white male heteronormativity (often Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism). We complement Maldonado-Torres’s account of the decolonial…
The decolonial abyss
The decolonial abyss: mysticism and cosmopolitics from the ruins." Political Theology, 19(4), pp. 358–359
Fanon, Coloniality, and the Struggle for Indigenous Recognition in Canada
Grounded in the struggles for self-determination of the Dene Nation in Canada, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, by Indigenous-Canadian political theorist Glen Coulthard, seeks to unmask the seemingly progressive politics of recognition in Canada.Remaining in conversation with Marxist thought, and not shying away from prescriptive considerations for activism, Coulthard powerfully weaves through the histories o…
Between the Decolonial and the Postcolonial
Traditional narratives of the emergence of the modern state locate the decisive moment at the 1648 Peace of Westphalia which resolved the last major religious conflict in European history, the Thir
Did You Listen? Zapatismo and Epistemic Decolonization
This essay looks at the Zapatista struggle in Southeast Mexico from the perspective of epistemic decolonization. I follow Walter Mignolo’s analysis of Zapatismo as a decolonial “theoretical revolution” and moreover build on it by articulating it in relation to other concepts in the decolonial theoretical toolkit, such as epistemic humility, pluriversality, and knowing how to listen. I conclude with an interpretation of recent events in the Zapati…
The decolonial abyss
The decolonial abyss: mysticism and cosmopolitics from the ruins." Political Theology, 19(4), pp. 358–359
Fanon, Coloniality, and the Struggle for Indigenous Recognition in Canada
Grounded in the struggles for self-determination of the Dene Nation in Canada, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, by Indigenous-Canadian political theorist Glen Coulthard, seeks to unmask the seemingly progressive politics of recognition in Canada.Remaining in conversation with Marxist thought, and not shying away from prescriptive considerations for activism, Coulthard powerfully weaves through the histories o…
Decolonising Philosophy
Based on Maldonado-Torres’s formulation of the term, we conceive the decolonial turn as a form of liberating and decolonising reason beyond the liberal and Enlightened emancipation of rationality, and beyond the more radical Euro-critiques that have failed to consistently challenge the legacies of Eurocentrism and white male heteronormativity (often Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism). We complement Maldonado-Torres’s account of the decolonial…
The decolonial abyss
The decolonial abyss: mysticism and cosmopolitics from the ruins." Political Theology, 19(4), pp. 358–359
The Fetish Revisited
Introduction to Special Issue
Between the Decolonial and the Postcolonial
Traditional narratives of the emergence of the modern state locate the decisive moment at the 1648 Peace of Westphalia which resolved the last major religious conflict in European history, the Thir
Did You Listen? Zapatismo and Epistemic Decolonization
This essay looks at the Zapatista struggle in Southeast Mexico from the perspective of epistemic decolonization. I follow Walter Mignolo’s analysis of Zapatismo as a decolonial “theoretical revolution” and moreover build on it by articulating it in relation to other concepts in the decolonial theoretical toolkit, such as epistemic humility, pluriversality, and knowing how to listen. I conclude with an interpretation of recent events in the Zapati…
Sylvia Wynter’s New Science of the Word and the Autopoetics of the Flesh
This essay proposes that the work of Sylvia Wynter, a canonical figure in Afro-Caribbean philosophy, demonstrates other ways of doing philosophy, a comparative philosophy carried out as a cross-cultural exercise. Sylvia Wynter has argued for a “New Science of the Word” by drawing from the contributions of Frantz Fanon (sociogeny), Aimé Césaire (poetic knowledge), and the field of cybernetics, among other sources. This essay aims to explain the fr…
Fanny Söderbäck, Revolutionary Time
Orospe Hernández, Mario. Biopolítica y liberación
Author(s): Vizcaíno, Rafael | Abstract: Orospe Hernández, Mario. Biopolítica y liberación: La noción de vida humana en Agamben y Dussel . Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2023. 198pp
Violence and the Sacred Revisited
In this article, I seek to contribute to the recent philosophical interest in the phenomenon of narco-culture. I build on the intervention initiated by Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (2020) by articulating the spiritually “generative” aspects of violence. For this endeavor, I turn to the French philosopher René Girard, whose work audaciously understands community-building and the maintenance of socia…
Words Made Flesh
The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World.” Whatever…
Postsecular Philosophy and Decolonization as a Political-Theological Struggle
The chapter follows the work of the Argentine Mexican philosopher and theologian Enrique Dussel to theorize aspects of the modern/colonial world as a political-theological problem. The chapter argues that pushing Dussel’s work to its ultimate conclusions helps us rethink and expand what goes by the name “political theology.” This is a reconceptualization that moves from conceiving of political theology as a method to envisioning it instead as an …
Postsecular Philosophy as Metaphoric Theology
This article articulates the ways in which the Argentine-Mexican philosopher and theologian Enrique Dussel advances a distinctly postsecularist and decolonial reinterpretation of the Marxist critique of religion. Specifically, this article explores Dussel’s Las metáforas teológicas de Marx [The Theological Metaphors of Marx], a text that exposes how Marx often deploys the Bible against the Christian in a way that presumes the original criticality…
Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Politics (3 works)