Although Aristotle is often thought to give canonical voice to the priority of vision as the most noble of the human powers of perceiving, this article demonstrates that in Aristotle, touch has a priority vision lacks. By tracing the things Aristotle says about touch in the De Anima and specifically the manner in which he identifies touch as a…[Read more]

Following the scent of wolves and dogs in Plato’s Republic, this essay attempts to track a path that leads us to one of the central teachings of the text itself: that the philosophical life is situated precariously between the tyrannical tendencies of the wolf and the blind obedience of the well-trained dog.

“transcendencia, diferencia ontológica, metontología. la propuesta filosófica de heidegger en la estela de ser y tiempo” recensión de: jean greisch, “la invención de la diferencia ontológica. heidegger después de ser y tiempo”, traducción y prólogo de julián fava, las cuarenta, buenos aires, 2010. en: ‘laguna. revista de filosofía’ 33/2013. *…[Read more]

Eine gerechte Verteilung von Gütern reicht nicht aus, um eine Gesellschaft gerecht zu machen. Gerechtigkeitstheorien müssen auch die sozialen Beziehungen in den Blick nehmen: Wirkliche soziale Gerechtigkeit herrscht erst, wenn es Institutionen gibt, die uns die Chance einräumen, soziale Anerkennung zu erfahren.

Analysing diverse modes of walking across a wide range of texts from the Enlightenment period and beyond, this article explores how the practice of walking was discovered by philosophers, educators and writers as a rich discursive trope that stood for competing notions of the morally good life. The discussion proceeds to then investigate how…[Read more]

Over the years, jürgen Habermas and Andrew Moravcsik have both written an impressive collection of academic works and public literature, dealing with one of the most contentious issues in the socio-political field, namely the process of European integration. Despite their shared interest in subjects as the European constitution, the democratic…[Read more]

Taking his critique of totalitarianizing conceptions of community as a starting point, this text examines Jean-Luc Nancy’s work of an ‘ontology of plural singular being’ for its political implications. It argues that while at first this ontology seems to advocate a negative or an anti-politics only, it can also be read as a ‘theory of communi…[Read more]

A PhD thesis about knowing how. I adopt an hybrid position between intellectualism and anti-intellectualism.

This paper sets out to evaluate the claim that Aristotle’s Assertoric Syllogistic is a relevance logic or shows significant similarities with it. I prepare the grounds for a meaningful comparison by extracting the notion of relevance employed in the most influential work on modern relevance logic, Anderson and Belnap’s Entailment. This notion is…[Read more]

RuPaul’s Drag Race is one of the few reality television shows focusing on QLGBT (queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) identified individuals that has made it into mainstream consciousness. Drag Race provides a unique perspective on the ways that gender identity, sexuality, size, class, race, and ethnicity intersect and interact in…[Read more]

The new economic realities that arose from the Spanish presence in America produced a lively debate as part of the Indian Controversies of the sixteenth century. Two important theoreticians, the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) and the Jesuit José de Acosta (1540-1600) differed from one another in important ways, but n…[Read more]

Developing a theory of language where truth is assigned to statements that are politically effective.

How a pedagogy of study can work against the neoliberal university, from a psychoanalytic-Marxist perspective.

The paper presents the presence of English homosexual authors in Polish literary studies mostly aimed at students of history of English literature. From a review: “As indicated in the opening paragraphs, queer theory and broadly LGBTIQ approaches have been finding new homes as well as finally being given voices in publication. One such from…[Read more]

This study presents the formative period of the English novelist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) with a special stress on the usage of symbolism in his early fiction. The book offers a new approach to Forster’s symbolism derived from the theoretical studies of Michael Riffaterre and his concept of symbolic systems – subtext and syllepsis. The author…[Read more]

In this essay, the author takes up William Walters’ (2006) incitement to theorize transmigration through the Deleuzian concept of control. The importance of mechanisms, or technologies, that modulate population ows are explored by paying close attention to novel strategies of migration policing and securitization in the United States, the E…[Read more]

In this essay, we trace the relations among the early years of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), the role of racialist discourse in shaping the border and U.S. immigration policy, and contemporary bordering and security environments. Our ultimate aim is to show how contemporary security knowledge and p…[Read more]

Contribution to a published review panel on Mezzadra and Neilson’s book, Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor.

A look at Nietzsche and Schopenhauer’s critique of scholarly education