Papers by Eduardo Mendieta
Society and Space, 2014
This is a review essay on an amazing book that ought to be read fervertly today. This is one of t... more This is a review essay on an amazing book that ought to be read fervertly today. This is one of the texts I am most proud of.
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Routledge eBooks, Jul 22, 2005
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Impulso (Piracicaba), 2003
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Eikasia: revista de filosofía, 2013
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Penn State University Press eBooks, Jun 12, 2018
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DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2008
Rorty should be studied neither especially because of the faithfulness of his narratives of the h... more Rorty should be studied neither especially because of the faithfulness of his narratives of the historiography of philosophy, nor because of the correctness of his readings, but mainly because, as the great philosophers of Western philosophy, he offered us a grand meta-narrative. Rorty was a meta-philosopher for whom the most important meta-narrative of philosophy was the struggle against gods, fetishes and myths that subjugated and humiliated humans. At the same time, this meta-narrative has as a central column the centrality of the power of persuasion through the game of giving and receiving reasons, reasons that expand the circle of those that we should consider our dialogue partners. In the expansion of our circle of conversation the imagination has priority over reason.
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Elsevier eBooks, 2008
This article surveys the different divisions of philosophy in general and moral philosophy in par... more This article surveys the different divisions of philosophy in general and moral philosophy in particular. It points out that while ethics and morality have one same common linguistic root, the two terms have come to stand for two different approaches to ethical theory. The moral philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are discussed. Kantian deontology and utilitarianism are also analyzed. The article concludes with a brief overview of three twentieth-century moral theories.
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Fordham University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2011
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This important new volume brings together Jürgen Habermas's key writings on religion and rel... more This important new volume brings together Jürgen Habermas's key writings on religion and religious belief. In these essays, Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. He often ...
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Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2001
Jorge J. E. Gracia is without question one of the best known Latino/Hispanic philosophers in the ... more Jorge J. E. Gracia is without question one of the best known Latino/Hispanic philosophers in the United States and abroad. He was a founding member of the American Philosophical Association (APA) committee on Hispanics, and its first chair. There is something, however, unique, not to say peculiar, about this recent book by Prof. Gracia. He was trained as a medievalist. His areas of expertise are late Medieval philosophy, the problem of individuation, a central topic within ontology, or more broadly defined metaphysics. Scholars trained in such fields tend not to be concerned with contemporary matters, social reality, and the vagaries of ‘identity politics.’ Yet, Gracia has taken on a topic that prima facie could be construed as being antithetical to his own philosophical orientation. As he declares in the ‘preface’ he writes not as a leader, or prophet, or even ideologue of a movement. He writes as both a ‘Hispanic’ and an ‘American’ who is concerned with the fate of the nation and his people, and who happens to be a philosopher. And this is what makes this book refreshing and insightful. Gracia is not peddling some new intellectual fashion. Nor is he compromising his intellectual orientation in order to make it fit some political agenda. Gracia de-mystifies a lot of sacred cows, and is able to question many presuppositions taken for granted in the ‘movement.’ Again, not because he is pushing a particular agenda. There is a lot of honesty, clarity, in this book. And this is refreshing.1
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Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2003
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City, 2013
I t is a good thing that we judge books neither by their covers nor by their titles. It is also a... more I t is a good thing that we judge books neither by their covers nor by their titles. It is also a good thing we also judge them neither by their prologues nor their forewords. Amin and Thrift’s latest joint book should not be judged on any of these accounts, except on the first sentences of their prologue, which reads: ‘This is a book about how the Left, particularly in the West, can move forward in the struggle to voice a politics of social equality and justice. But it does not provide a manifesto, a template, or even a plan’ (ix). Two gorgeous sentences, straightforward, but full of pathos and above all dignity. The first, declares, confesses and commands an ethical commitment. This is a book about what we can do to further the struggle against injustice and inequality. However, at the same time, it announces after it has declared its point of departure, its moral foothold, that it has no ‘manifesto, template, or even plan’ to provide. Should we be confused, disappointed, ‘turned off’? Should anyone on the side of justice and equality also not have a road map, or in our days should we not say an IP address, for how to get to a social arrangement in which we can decrease suffering and degradation, and tip the scales of justice on the side of integrity and dignity? Amin and Thrift do us the honor of treating us as enlightened and cosmopolitan citizens of a global society that can do without the pontificating of soothsayers, apocalypsists or Leninist prophets. Their stance should remind us of Kant and Rorty. The former urged us to ‘Sapere Aude!’ He dared us to depart from all self-incurred forms of mental tutelage. The latter reminded us that there are less useful and more useful ways to talk about our collective challenges. He dared us not to get things right, but to see them under the bright light of an utopia in which more and more of us could count part of our beloved ‘we’. Between Kant and Rorty there is a common meeting ground, and it goes by the name of Mündigkeit, or what I would call ‘cosmopolitan maturity’. This is also the ground from which Amin and Thrift address us. This book is about what the Left should be proud of, what it can do to recapture the imagination of peoples to energize them into social action, and what horizons lay ahead in terms of actionable strategies. I will quickly overview the contents, before I come to what I take to be the main reason why many of us interested in tipping the scales of justice on the side of integrity and dignity should be reading this wonderful and very useful book. The book is made up of seven compact, well-argued and well-annotated chapters. In the first, Amin and Thrift lay out their understanding of what they call ‘the grounds of the political’. The key argument in this chapter is that historically the Left has been known for
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Chiasmi International, 2013
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https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-lying-about-covid-amounts-to-treason/
https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09334-5.html
The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the “border” in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres – from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness.
TOC:
Tomaž Grušovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart Škof
Introduction
Part I: Bordering Topologies
Chapter 1: Edward S. Casey
Moving Over the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies
Chapter 2: Mary Watkins
From Hospitality to Mutual Accompaniment: Addressing Soul Loss in the Citizen-Neighbor
Chapter 3: Eduardo Mendieta
Lethal Borders and Mobile Panopticons: Thanatological Dispositifs
Chapter 4: Helena Motoh
Borders in Between—The Concept of Border(ing) in Early Chinese History
Part II: Debordering Praxes
Chapter 5: Victor Forte
Buddhist Nationalism and Marginalizing Rhetoric in a Dependently Originated World
Chapter 6: Mary Leonard
Borders and Debordering in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography: Icon, Mosaic, and Flow
Chapter 7: Reingard Spannring
The Chicken and the Educator: Debordering Critical Pedagogy in the Anthropocene
Chapter 8: Tomaž Grušovnik
Debordering Ethics: Acknowledging Animal Morality
Part III: Worlding Hospitableness
Chapter 9: Klaus-Gerd Giesen
Debordering Academia: From the Philosophy of Hospitality to the Practice of Hospitableness
Chapter 10: Petri BerndtsonCultivating a Respiratory and Aerial Culture of Hospitality
Chapter 11: Lenart Škof
Lamentation for a Child: On Migration, Vulnerability, and Ethics of Hospitality
Chapter 12: Shé Hawke
Graft versus Host: Waters that Convey and Harbors that Reject Liminal Subjects—Towards a New Ethics of Hospitality
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