Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo | |
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| Born | February 18, 1964 |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Awards | Rippey Innovation Teaching Award, 2018-2019 Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Oregon |
Main interests | Latin American thought, Philosophy of liberation, Decolonial philosophies, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction |
Notable ideas | Liberatory decolonial aesthetic though. |
Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo (born February 18, 1964) is a Chilean-born philosopher, decolonial thinker, writer, painter, and Professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is also Faculty Research Fellow of the Center for Gender and Africa Studies of the University of the Free State, South Africa. In his work he develops an aesthetic philosophy, in which he engages the aesthetic or pre-reflexive affective, embodied and memorial dimensions of understanding and living experience. In the recent years he has emphasized this approach to philosophical understanding in seeking to extend the fields of decolonial philosophy, Continental philosophy, and Latin American Philosophy of Liberation.[1][2] This work happens in thinking between these ways of thinking, histories, and lineages, in bringing them into dialogue, for the sake of finding new or inceptive engagements with concrete existence. Vallega has been co-director of the Collegium Phänomenologicum twice and is active member of the director's board. He served in the past as president of North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics. Among his editorial activities, he is the editor of the English version of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation, and he is editor of the World Philosophies Series, published by Indiana University Press. In the last years he has developed a body of art works under the theme of "elemental painting." He is part of the core faculty of the Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues, Decolonizing Knowledge and Power International School, Barcelona, Spain.
Books
- Heidegger and the Question of Space: Thinking on Exilic Grounds (Penn State Press, 1999)
- Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limit of Language, Art, and the Political (SUNY press, 2009–2010)
- Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority (Indiana University Press, 2014)
- Tiempo y Liberación (Editorial AKAL, 2020)
- Dussel, Enrique. Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalisation and Exclusion. Ed. Alejandro Vallega (Duke University Press, 2013)
See also
References
- ↑ Malpas, Jeff (11 June 2004). "Review of Heidegger and the Issue of Space. Thinking on Exilic Grounds". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ↑ Rivera, Omar (2017). "Reading Alejandro Vallega Toward a Decolonial Aesthetics". Comparative and Continental Philosophy. 9 (2): 162–173. doi:10.1080/17570638.2017.1335030. S2CID 148870518.
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