Maria del Rosario Acosta López
I am a professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and my work is at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, and Latin American studies. I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, in 2007, taught at the Universidad de los Andes (2007-2014) in Bogota, and then moved to the United States (first to Chicago to work at DePaul University, and more recently to California).
I have published books on German Romanticism (2006) and Friedrich Schiller (2008), and edited books on Hegel (2007), Schiller (2008 and 2018), contemporary philosophy of art (2008, 2009, and 2016), contemporary political philosophy (2010, 2013), and transitional justice and the politics of memory in Colombia (2023). I have also edited special issues on aesthetics and politics (RES, 2009-10), law and violence (New Centennial Review, 2014), decolonial approaches to collective temporalities (diacritics, 2019), art and memory in Colombia (Dialogo, 2019), women's voices in the Colombian conflict (Ideas y Valores, 2020), and Colombian philosophy (Philosophical Readings, 2020). I have also recently co-dited an issue on Cartographies of poetic memories in Latin America (Palabra y Razón, 2024) and will be co-editing a special issue on art and memorialization in Colombia (H-art 2025) and on the history of philosophy from Latin America (Epoche, 2026).
My current book project is entitled Gramáticas de la escucha: hacer audible lo inaudito (forthcoming with Herder in Spanish (2025) and Fordham in English (in preparation)), and it is the result of my practical engagement with communities surviving paramilitary violence in Colombia and police torture on the South Side of Chicago. I have worked with the Historical Memory Center in Colombia on projects sponsored by USIP (United States Institute for Peace), and with the Chicago Torture Justice Center and Chicago Torture Justice Memorials in the city of Chicago. Another book, in which I develop a philosophical approach to memory while reconstructing the history of memory politics in Colombia (and the intersections of this work with CTJC and CTJM in Chicago), has been published as part of the section on the Americas for the World Humanities Report (funded by the Mellon Foundation and available online).
Currently, I am also working on a book for Fordham UP co-written with Jean-Luc Nancy and the Group on Law and Violence titled The Unstoppable Murmur of Being Together, a monograph in Spanish on Narratives of the Commons for Ediciones Macul in Chile, a compilation of my essays on Contemporary Art in Colombia for Bloomsbury, and my second monograph on Friedrich Schiller titled Aesthetics as Critique.
Address: Department of Hispanic Studies
University of California, Riverside
2401 HMNSS Building
Riverside, California 92521
I have published books on German Romanticism (2006) and Friedrich Schiller (2008), and edited books on Hegel (2007), Schiller (2008 and 2018), contemporary philosophy of art (2008, 2009, and 2016), contemporary political philosophy (2010, 2013), and transitional justice and the politics of memory in Colombia (2023). I have also edited special issues on aesthetics and politics (RES, 2009-10), law and violence (New Centennial Review, 2014), decolonial approaches to collective temporalities (diacritics, 2019), art and memory in Colombia (Dialogo, 2019), women's voices in the Colombian conflict (Ideas y Valores, 2020), and Colombian philosophy (Philosophical Readings, 2020). I have also recently co-dited an issue on Cartographies of poetic memories in Latin America (Palabra y Razón, 2024) and will be co-editing a special issue on art and memorialization in Colombia (H-art 2025) and on the history of philosophy from Latin America (Epoche, 2026).
My current book project is entitled Gramáticas de la escucha: hacer audible lo inaudito (forthcoming with Herder in Spanish (2025) and Fordham in English (in preparation)), and it is the result of my practical engagement with communities surviving paramilitary violence in Colombia and police torture on the South Side of Chicago. I have worked with the Historical Memory Center in Colombia on projects sponsored by USIP (United States Institute for Peace), and with the Chicago Torture Justice Center and Chicago Torture Justice Memorials in the city of Chicago. Another book, in which I develop a philosophical approach to memory while reconstructing the history of memory politics in Colombia (and the intersections of this work with CTJC and CTJM in Chicago), has been published as part of the section on the Americas for the World Humanities Report (funded by the Mellon Foundation and available online).
Currently, I am also working on a book for Fordham UP co-written with Jean-Luc Nancy and the Group on Law and Violence titled The Unstoppable Murmur of Being Together, a monograph in Spanish on Narratives of the Commons for Ediciones Macul in Chile, a compilation of my essays on Contemporary Art in Colombia for Bloomsbury, and my second monograph on Friedrich Schiller titled Aesthetics as Critique.
Address: Department of Hispanic Studies
University of California, Riverside
2401 HMNSS Building
Riverside, California 92521
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Books by Maria del Rosario Acosta López
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Visual Dimensions of Social Unrest: Posters and Flyers of Taller de Gráfica Popular and Taller 4 Rojo - Gustavo Quintero
The Production and Destruction of Television Images in José Alejandro Restrepo’s Iconomía - Juan Sebastián Ospina
La resistencia de lo inarchivable: Del mito a la historia en Musa paradisiaca de José Alejandro Restrepo - María del Rosario Acosta López
“Recuerda recordar”: Memoria del cuerpo y resistencia en White Series de María José Arjona - Ángela María Duarte Pardo
Memorias de Guamacó como uso ejemplar del pasado - Raquel Méndez Villamizar, Damián Pachón Soto, y Mario Niño Villamizar
Notas sobre La tierra y la sombra de César Acevedo: Una lectura alegórica - Daniel Moreno
Sonido bestial: Afecto y memoria posthumana a partir de Sacrificio de Clemencia Echeverri - Juan Diego Pérez Moreno
Violence, Nature, and Memory in Contemporary Colombian Poetry - Tania Ganitsky
As a philosopher and an artist, Schiller has a privileged insight into the possible connections between these two fields. He is usually well known for his writings on the aesthetic education, but what this book makes clear is the relevance of this concept for our contemporary condition. With Schiller, this book helps us reflect on what role art plays and ought to play in our way of being in the world, with others, and how art prepares us to be and think ethically and to reshape our political realm.
En "Sobre el arte moderno" vemos a Klee en la difícil posición de un artista que quiere insistir en la capacidad de sus obras para hablar por sí mismas; pero que sabe, a la vez, de las dificultades que el público puede encontrar para aproximarse por primera vez a composiciones que desafían supuestos ya arraigados acerca de la obra de arte. Este texto es, por tanto, junto con todos esos gestos artísticos que son las obras de arte de Klee, una invitación a mirar de otra manera, a dejar que las obras nos interpelen y a participar del diálogo que ellas inauguran. ""
El libro incluye, además la traducción al español de los textos Sobre el arte trágico y Sobre el fundamento del placer ante los objetos trágicos. "
Articles and Book Chapters by Maria del Rosario Acosta López
Indice/Table of contents
Visual Dimensions of Social Unrest: Posters and Flyers of Taller de Gráfica Popular and Taller 4 Rojo - Gustavo Quintero
The Production and Destruction of Television Images in José Alejandro Restrepo’s Iconomía - Juan Sebastián Ospina
La resistencia de lo inarchivable: Del mito a la historia en Musa paradisiaca de José Alejandro Restrepo - María del Rosario Acosta López
“Recuerda recordar”: Memoria del cuerpo y resistencia en White Series de María José Arjona - Ángela María Duarte Pardo
Memorias de Guamacó como uso ejemplar del pasado - Raquel Méndez Villamizar, Damián Pachón Soto, y Mario Niño Villamizar
Notas sobre La tierra y la sombra de César Acevedo: Una lectura alegórica - Daniel Moreno
Sonido bestial: Afecto y memoria posthumana a partir de Sacrificio de Clemencia Echeverri - Juan Diego Pérez Moreno
Violence, Nature, and Memory in Contemporary Colombian Poetry - Tania Ganitsky
As a philosopher and an artist, Schiller has a privileged insight into the possible connections between these two fields. He is usually well known for his writings on the aesthetic education, but what this book makes clear is the relevance of this concept for our contemporary condition. With Schiller, this book helps us reflect on what role art plays and ought to play in our way of being in the world, with others, and how art prepares us to be and think ethically and to reshape our political realm.
En "Sobre el arte moderno" vemos a Klee en la difícil posición de un artista que quiere insistir en la capacidad de sus obras para hablar por sí mismas; pero que sabe, a la vez, de las dificultades que el público puede encontrar para aproximarse por primera vez a composiciones que desafían supuestos ya arraigados acerca de la obra de arte. Este texto es, por tanto, junto con todos esos gestos artísticos que son las obras de arte de Klee, una invitación a mirar de otra manera, a dejar que las obras nos interpelen y a participar del diálogo que ellas inauguran. ""
El libro incluye, además la traducción al español de los textos Sobre el arte trágico y Sobre el fundamento del placer ante los objetos trágicos. "
El objetivo de este libro es sacar a la luz esta riqueza con ayuda de la reflexión cuidadosa de distintos autores expertos en el tema desde distintas tradiciones de filosofía política moderna y contemporánea (desde Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling y Kierkegaard, hasta Heidegger, Benjamin, Arendt, Gadamer y Derrida). El resultado es un análisis profundo de los variados marcos conceptuales que pueden dar lugar, problematizar, cuestionar y rescatar elementos fructíferos para que el problema del “reconocimiento” vuelva a llenarse de sentido y pueda servir nuevamente como punto de partida para un pensamiento contemporáneo sobre la comunidad política y la diferencia que nos constituye a la base de lo común.
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oblivion that political power has imposed all over Latin America? This talk
addresses this question through an engagement with the “historical” event known as the Matanza de las bananeras in Colombia—a paradigmatic case of historical oblivion. Tracing how the erasure of this case has been “recovered,” first in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and later in José Alejandro Restrepo’s art installation Musa Paradisíaca, the paper explores the aesthetics of memory and the ‘grammars of listening’ that literature and art can produce in order to resist the force of institutionally sanctioned oblivion.
This workshop is the seventh event in a series of gatherings that fall under the epigraph of “Violence in Philosophy and Literature”. It has taken place previously on “Language and Violence” (Tel Aviv University), “Space and Violence” (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), “Thinking and Writing – Disruption” (ZfL Berlin), “Violence Incorporated” (University of Chicago), “Sound and Violence” (Collège International Paris), and on “Time and Violence” (Goethe University, Frankfurt).
The workshop is the fourth part of a series of gatherings that fall under the epigraph of "Violence in Philosophy and Literature". These gatherings were particularly devoted to discuss the question of 'language' (Tel Aviv University), of 'space' (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), and that of 'writing' (ZfL Berlin) in both fields. As in the previous years, the discussion of the individual papers will be followed by a close reading and discussion of a single literary text and a film screening, which will catalyze the exchange on violence and incorporation.
La seule chose qui soit certaine dans l'incertitude que la pandémie amène, c'est que désormais nous ne vivrons plus notre corps de la même manière. De tous nos sens, il semble que la voix soit ce qui mette le plus puissamment en présence, au milieu de l'isolement, ceux que nous ne pouvons pas toucher. Que signifie le fait que ce soit l'écoute qui guide la façon que nous avons de nous toucher ? Quel être en commun peut être pensé à partir des grammaires de la résonance ?
Reclam Verlag, Leipzig, 1991. Este texto fue publicado por primera vez por Benteli Verlag (Berna) en 1945. La traducción fue publicada con el permiso del Zentrum Paul Klee.
Friedrich Hölderlin a manifestar en su juventud una atracción especial por la ciudad de Jena, donde permaneció una corta temporada en el semestre de invierno de 1794 a 1795, el autor rastrea y analiza las influencias que ejercieron sobre el joven poeta el pensamiento de Kant y la producción literaria y filosófica de Schiller, así como las lecturas que por entonces haría de los griegos, especialmente de Platón. El artículo se concentra en analizar, particularmente, la manera como la interpretación de la filosofía kantiana, reinante en el seminario de Tübinga –lugar donde Hölderlin realizó sus estudios– combinada con la mirada nostálgica por la Antigüedad, característica de las primeras producciones de Schiller, mediaron la recepción que Hölderlin llevaría a cabo de los griegos.
Nuzzo's book is a very successful attempt to put Hegel in direct dialogue with contemporary philosophical discussions. It does so not by turning Hegel into a proto-postmodern figure, but rather by showing how his modern and critical perspective on his own epoch can serve as an example of a thinking that creates its own history, and hence, the possibilities of its own future.