Alejandro A Vallega
Biographic Data
| ID | 493876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro A Vallega |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro A |
| FAMILY NAME | Vallega |
| SIGNATURE | VALLEGA A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Phenomenological Force of Painting as Poietic Imagination
This article shows how painting affords us the chance to engage the invisible dimensions at play in the happening of the visible. The first part focuses on how in Force of Imagination John Sallis rethinks nature in terms of “force of imagination” and “the elemental.” In light of the sway of the elemental in the happening of nature, nature may be understood not in terms of presence and as the showing of things themselves, but through the dynamic e…
Transpositions
For Anselm Kiefer, his painting shows that, that something exists “shows that there is also nothingness.” The moment of visibility is also the moment of our exposure in/with/through noth ing (in a gerundive sense) elemental in the happening of the visible. Painting bears ways of exposing the becoming of the visible and ultimately of consciousness, both sensible and intellectual, in/through/with empty ing and noth ing , i.e., in the happening of t…
Ethics of Liberation
Available in English for the first time, this much-anticipated translation of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation marks a milestone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one of the world's foremost philosophers. This treatise, originally published in 1998, is his masterwork and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.Throughout his career, Dussel has sought to open a space for articulating new possibilities…
The Aisthetic-Cosmological Dimension of María Lugone's Decolonial Feminism
In her work on decolonial feminism María Lugones expands and strengthens the task of decolonial thinking. On the one hand this occurs as gender becomes explicitly part of the very ways of being under modernity, and this means that gender, race, and labor are always entangled in the coloniality of power. As a result decolonial thought may only occur by the critique of one's concrete situation in the living intersectionality in which identities and…
Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority
While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines developments in gender studies, race theory, postcolonial theory, and the legacy of cultural dependency in light of the Latin American experience. He explores Latin America’s engagement with contempor…
Displacements—Beyond the Coloniality of Images
Dynamic mental images are co-constitutive of the determinations of reality and possibility under which our senses of life open and unfold. Ultimately, this dynamic sense of images introduces the difficulty of thinking in light of their role in the configuration of human knowledge and their power over interpretations and determinations of the many senses of beings. This relationship between images and philosophical knowledge is further complicated…
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Displacements—Beyond the Coloniality of Images
Dynamic mental images are co-constitutive of the determinations of reality and possibility under which our senses of life open and unfold. Ultimately, this dynamic sense of images introduces the difficulty of thinking in light of their role in the configuration of human knowledge and their power over interpretations and determinations of the many senses of beings. This relationship between images and philosophical knowledge is further complicated…
Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority
While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines developments in gender studies, race theory, postcolonial theory, and the legacy of cultural dependency in light of the Latin American experience. He explores Latin America’s engagement with contempor…
Ethics of Liberation
Available in English for the first time, this much-anticipated translation of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation marks a milestone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one of the world's foremost philosophers. This treatise, originally published in 1998, is his masterwork and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.Throughout his career, Dussel has sought to open a space for articulating new possibilities…
The Aisthetic-Cosmological Dimension of María Lugone's Decolonial Feminism
In her work on decolonial feminism María Lugones expands and strengthens the task of decolonial thinking. On the one hand this occurs as gender becomes explicitly part of the very ways of being under modernity, and this means that gender, race, and labor are always entangled in the coloniality of power. As a result decolonial thought may only occur by the critique of one's concrete situation in the living intersectionality in which identities and…
Transpositions
For Anselm Kiefer, his painting shows that, that something exists “shows that there is also nothingness.” The moment of visibility is also the moment of our exposure in/with/through noth ing (in a gerundive sense) elemental in the happening of the visible. Painting bears ways of exposing the becoming of the visible and ultimately of consciousness, both sensible and intellectual, in/through/with empty ing and noth ing , i.e., in the happening of t…
On the Phenomenological Force of Painting as Poietic Imagination
This article shows how painting affords us the chance to engage the invisible dimensions at play in the happening of the visible. The first part focuses on how in Force of Imagination John Sallis rethinks nature in terms of “force of imagination” and “the elemental.” In light of the sway of the elemental in the happening of nature, nature may be understood not in terms of presence and as the showing of things themselves, but through the dynamic e…
Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Consciousness (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Happening (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Latin American Cultural Politics (2 works) · Law (2 works)