Antonio Y Vázquez-Arroyo
Biographic Data
| ID | 986411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Y Vázquez-Arroyo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Vázquez-Arroyo |
| SIGNATURE | VÁZQUEZ-ARROYO A Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1817-6381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
After Frankfurt: Sedimentations, Colonialism, and Critical Theory
Over the last two decades, "decolonization" has emerged as a pervasive trope in the humanities and social sciences. These invocations of "decolonization" raise important questions: What do these attempts at "decolonization" imply about concepts, about ideas and categories, institutions and practices? Does this theoretical framing of questions about colonialism and its impress in theoretical forms truly capture the actual role of historical sedime…
A Singular Enlightenment: C. L. R. James, Anti-Colonialism, and Transatlantic Political Thought
This article formulates an original account of the Enlightenment through an interpretation of C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins , a landmark work of transatlantic anti-colonial thought. It defends a dialectical account of the Enlightenment as a singular transatlantic historical process whose content and critical import changes across space and time. In The Black Jacobins , James shows the Enlightenment’s revolutionary and emancipatory political…
Visionary political theory
Binding Politics: Political Space, Responsibilities, and the New-Old Orders
This essay juxtaposes the need to rebuff the erection of walls along with euphemisms about border security, root and branch with the need to call for a defense of borders in the name of the self-determination of collectivities against imperialism, either in the name of human rights or responsibility to protect. In doing so, it calls for retrieving notions of bounded collective life and the exercise of political responsibility by uncompromisingly …
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory
One of the most politically radical of all cultural and literary theorists in the North-Atlantic world, Fredric Jameson’s work remains mostly terra incognita in North-Atlantic academic political theory. Aside from rare invocations of this or that essay or book, there has not been sustained treatment of Jameson’s relentlessly politicizing vocation of dialectical criticism. It has neither been mined by scholars of political theory, nor systematical…
Fukuyama’s Universal History
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
The Political Import of Deconstruction-Derrida's Limits: A Forum on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part I
Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference 'Whither Marxism?' hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida's analyses provoked a la…
Decolonial Feints: Ciccariello-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics
Decolonial Feints:Ciccariello-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo (bio) George Ciccariello-Maher, Decolonizing Dialectics. Duke University Press, 2017. xii + 242 pp. $23.95 (pbk) $89.95 (hc). ISBN 978–0–8223–6243–2 We have to take Hegel seriously. C. L. R. James, Notes on Dialectics (1948) Nowadays self-styled radical academics in the humanities and social sciences seem to be increasingly engaged in either provincializing or…
Critical Theory, colonialism, and the historicity of thought
Response to Shalini Satkunanandan’s review of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power
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Sheldon Wolin’s theoretical practice
Sheldon S. Wolin and the Historicity of Political Thought
“To refine, to clarify, to intensify ... there is but one single force—the imagination.”william carlos williams, spring and all (1923) Long considered one of the most original and influential American political theorists of the last fifty years, Sheldon S. Wolin's work has yet to receive the sustained critical engagement it deserves. Essays dealing with this or that aspect of his political thought have begun to appear during the last couple of ye…
How Not to Learn From Catastrophe: Habermas, Critical Theory and the “Catastrophization” of Political Life
This essay conceptualizes the intersections between contemporary catastrophes and political life by exploring how narratives of catastrophe mediate discursive and objective processes of catastrophization. It argues for the need to counteract catastrophization, a discursive and objective political phenomenon, by not only re-cognizing how catastrophes impinge on political life but by offering a more critical understanding of this intersection. The …
Revisiting Johan Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence
The Antinomies of Violence and Catastrophe: Structures, Orders, and Agents
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. The Storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the
Revisiting Johan Galtung’s Concept of Structural Violence
This symposium is organized around a common concern: if we, as political scientists, limit ourselves to an analytics of violence that points solely to agents and intentions, we are sure to miss the
Democracy Today: Four Maxims
Democracy Today: Four Maxims Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo (bio) Worldwide, the summer of 2009 was a throwback. The world witnessed Manuel Zelaya getting ousted in Honduras – in what seemed an anachronism in the post-cold war era – by a coup d’ état, with a mild reproach by the United States. Even so, after some additional rebuking by the international community, Zelaya remained out of office. Coeval with this, an election, the minimal marker of demo…
Minima Humana: Adorno, Exile, and the Dialectic
In a letter from June 3, 1945, Adorno candidly relates to Thomas Mann his innermost feelings about meeting the novelist in the United States: “When I was able to meet you here in person, upon this remote western coast, I had the feeling that I was only now, for the first time, actually encountering that German tradition from which I have received everything—including the strength to resist the tradition.”1 At first glance, there is nothing too re…
Liberal Democracy and Neoliberalism: A Critical Juxtaposition
In this essay I argue that neoliberalism is both an economic and a political doctrine and that its historical trajectory, both conceptual and political, especially in the United States, is better understood in relation to its complex relationship of affinity with liberal democracy. The intersection between liberal democracy and neoliberalism is thus better apprehended from the perspective of the separation of the economic and the political in cap…
Responsibility, Violence, and Catastrophe
Universal history disavowed: On Critical Theory and Postcolonialism
Universal history must be construed and denied. After the catastrophes that have happened, and in view of the catastrophes to come, it would be cynical to say that a plan for a better world is mani
Re-cognizing Recognition: A Commentary on Patchen Markell's Bound by Recognition
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Revisiting Johan Galtung’s Concept of Structural Violence
This symposium is organized around a common concern: if we, as political scientists, limit ourselves to an analytics of violence that points solely to agents and intentions, we are sure to miss the
Critical Theory, colonialism, and the historicity of thought
How Not to Learn From Catastrophe: Habermas, Critical Theory and the “Catastrophization” of Political Life
This essay conceptualizes the intersections between contemporary catastrophes and political life by exploring how narratives of catastrophe mediate discursive and objective processes of catastrophization. It argues for the need to counteract catastrophization, a discursive and objective political phenomenon, by not only re-cognizing how catastrophes impinge on political life but by offering a more critical understanding of this intersection. The …
Liberal Democracy and Neoliberalism: A Critical Juxtaposition
In this essay I argue that neoliberalism is both an economic and a political doctrine and that its historical trajectory, both conceptual and political, especially in the United States, is better understood in relation to its complex relationship of affinity with liberal democracy. The intersection between liberal democracy and neoliberalism is thus better apprehended from the perspective of the separation of the economic and the political in cap…
Revisiting Johan Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence
Responsibility, Violence, and Catastrophe
Universal history disavowed: On Critical Theory and Postcolonialism
Universal history must be construed and denied. After the catastrophes that have happened, and in view of the catastrophes to come, it would be cynical to say that a plan for a better world is mani
The Antinomies of Violence and Catastrophe: Structures, Orders, and Agents
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. The Storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the
Sheldon S. Wolin and the Historicity of Political Thought
“To refine, to clarify, to intensify ... there is but one single force—the imagination.”william carlos williams, spring and all (1923) Long considered one of the most original and influential American political theorists of the last fifty years, Sheldon S. Wolin's work has yet to receive the sustained critical engagement it deserves. Essays dealing with this or that aspect of his political thought have begun to appear during the last couple of ye…
Sheldon Wolin’s theoretical practice
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory
One of the most politically radical of all cultural and literary theorists in the North-Atlantic world, Fredric Jameson’s work remains mostly terra incognita in North-Atlantic academic political theory. Aside from rare invocations of this or that essay or book, there has not been sustained treatment of Jameson’s relentlessly politicizing vocation of dialectical criticism. It has neither been mined by scholars of political theory, nor systematical…
The Political Import of Deconstruction-Derrida's Limits: A Forum on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part I
Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference 'Whither Marxism?' hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida's analyses provoked a la…
Re-cognizing Recognition: A Commentary on Patchen Markell's Bound by Recognition
Re-cognizing Recognition: A Commentary on Patchen Markell's Bound by Recognition
Liberal Democracy and Neoliberalism: A Critical Juxtaposition
In this essay I argue that neoliberalism is both an economic and a political doctrine and that its historical trajectory, both conceptual and political, especially in the United States, is better understood in relation to its complex relationship of affinity with liberal democracy. The intersection between liberal democracy and neoliberalism is thus better apprehended from the perspective of the separation of the economic and the political in cap…
Responsibility, Violence, and Catastrophe
Universal history disavowed: On Critical Theory and Postcolonialism
Universal history must be construed and denied. After the catastrophes that have happened, and in view of the catastrophes to come, it would be cynical to say that a plan for a better world is mani
Minima Humana: Adorno, Exile, and the Dialectic
In a letter from June 3, 1945, Adorno candidly relates to Thomas Mann his innermost feelings about meeting the novelist in the United States: “When I was able to meet you here in person, upon this remote western coast, I had the feeling that I was only now, for the first time, actually encountering that German tradition from which I have received everything—including the strength to resist the tradition.”1 At first glance, there is nothing too re…
Democracy Today: Four Maxims
Democracy Today: Four Maxims Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo (bio) Worldwide, the summer of 2009 was a throwback. The world witnessed Manuel Zelaya getting ousted in Honduras – in what seemed an anachronism in the post-cold war era – by a coup d’ état, with a mild reproach by the United States. Even so, after some additional rebuking by the international community, Zelaya remained out of office. Coeval with this, an election, the minimal marker of demo…
Revisiting Johan Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence
The Antinomies of Violence and Catastrophe: Structures, Orders, and Agents
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. The Storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the
Revisiting Johan Galtung’s Concept of Structural Violence
This symposium is organized around a common concern: if we, as political scientists, limit ourselves to an analytics of violence that points solely to agents and intentions, we are sure to miss the
How Not to Learn From Catastrophe: Habermas, Critical Theory and the “Catastrophization” of Political Life
This essay conceptualizes the intersections between contemporary catastrophes and political life by exploring how narratives of catastrophe mediate discursive and objective processes of catastrophization. It argues for the need to counteract catastrophization, a discursive and objective political phenomenon, by not only re-cognizing how catastrophes impinge on political life but by offering a more critical understanding of this intersection. The …
Sheldon S. Wolin and the Historicity of Political Thought
“To refine, to clarify, to intensify ... there is but one single force—the imagination.”william carlos williams, spring and all (1923) Long considered one of the most original and influential American political theorists of the last fifty years, Sheldon S. Wolin's work has yet to receive the sustained critical engagement it deserves. Essays dealing with this or that aspect of his political thought have begun to appear during the last couple of ye…
Response to Shalini Satkunanandan’s review of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sheldon Wolin’s theoretical practice
Decolonial Feints: Ciccariello-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics
Decolonial Feints:Ciccariello-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo (bio) George Ciccariello-Maher, Decolonizing Dialectics. Duke University Press, 2017. xii + 242 pp. $23.95 (pbk) $89.95 (hc). ISBN 978–0–8223–6243–2 We have to take Hegel seriously. C. L. R. James, Notes on Dialectics (1948) Nowadays self-styled radical academics in the humanities and social sciences seem to be increasingly engaged in either provincializing or…
Critical Theory, colonialism, and the historicity of thought
The Political Import of Deconstruction-Derrida's Limits: A Forum on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part I
Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference 'Whither Marxism?' hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida's analyses provoked a la…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Fukuyama’s Universal History
Binding Politics: Political Space, Responsibilities, and the New-Old Orders
This essay juxtaposes the need to rebuff the erection of walls along with euphemisms about border security, root and branch with the need to call for a defense of borders in the name of the self-determination of collectivities against imperialism, either in the name of human rights or responsibility to protect. In doing so, it calls for retrieving notions of bounded collective life and the exercise of political responsibility by uncompromisingly …
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory
One of the most politically radical of all cultural and literary theorists in the North-Atlantic world, Fredric Jameson’s work remains mostly terra incognita in North-Atlantic academic political theory. Aside from rare invocations of this or that essay or book, there has not been sustained treatment of Jameson’s relentlessly politicizing vocation of dialectical criticism. It has neither been mined by scholars of political theory, nor systematical…
A Singular Enlightenment: C. L. R. James, Anti-Colonialism, and Transatlantic Political Thought
This article formulates an original account of the Enlightenment through an interpretation of C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins , a landmark work of transatlantic anti-colonial thought. It defends a dialectical account of the Enlightenment as a singular transatlantic historical process whose content and critical import changes across space and time. In The Black Jacobins , James shows the Enlightenment’s revolutionary and emancipatory political…
Visionary political theory
After Frankfurt: Sedimentations, Colonialism, and Critical Theory
Over the last two decades, "decolonization" has emerged as a pervasive trope in the humanities and social sciences. These invocations of "decolonization" raise important questions: What do these attempts at "decolonization" imply about concepts, about ideas and categories, institutions and practices? Does this theoretical framing of questions about colonialism and its impress in theoretical forms truly capture the actual role of historical sedime…
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