Alejandro Vallega

Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo (born February 18, 1964) is a Chilean-born philosopher, writer, painter and professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. In his work he develops an aesthetic philosophy, in which he engages the aesthetic or pre-reflexive affective, embodied and memorial dimensions of philosophical understanding. In the recent years he has emphasized this approach to philosophical understanding in Philosophy of Liberation and decolonial thought.[1][2] 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.

Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo
BornFebruary 18, 1964
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
AwardsRippey Innovation Teaching Award, 2018-2019 Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Oregon
Main interests
Latin American thought, Philosophy of liberation, Decolonial philosophies, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction
Notable ideas
Liberatory decolonial aesthetic though.

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)
  • Dussel, Enrique. Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalisation and Exclusion. Ed. Alejandro Vallega (Duke University Press, 2013)

See also

References
  1. Malpas, Jeff (11 June 2004). "Review of Heidegger and the Issue of Space. Thinking on Exilic Grounds". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.
  2. Rivera, Omar (2017). "Reading Alejandro Vallega Toward a Decolonial Aesthetics". Comparative and Continental Philosophy. 9 (2): 162–173. doi:10.1080/17570638.2017.1335030.
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