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| Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo | |
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| Born | February 18, 1964 |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna; St.John’s College, Annapolis. |
| Awards | Rippey Innovation Teaching Award, 2018-2019 Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities |
| Era | 20th and 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy; Latin American Thought. |
| School | Continental philosophy; Latin American thought; Ancient Greek philosophy. |
| Institutions | University of Oregon |
| Main interests | Aesthetics; phenomenology; hermeneutics; deconstruction; Ancient Greek thought; Latin American thought, intercultural philosophy |
| Notable ideas | Aesthetic thought, decolonial aesthetics |
Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo (born February 18, 1964 in Santiago, Chile) is an Italo-Latin American philosopher and painter. He is professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is a 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 of pre-reflexive affective, embodied and memorial dimensions of understanding and living experience.
Fields
His approach to philosophical understanding is informed by aesthetic experience and imagination. He works on Ancient Greek philosophy, Continental philosophy, and Latin American philosophy, and popular and indigenous thought.
Vallega has twice been co-director of the Collegium Phänomenologicum and is a member of the board of directors. He served as president of North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics. He is the editor of the English version of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation, and of the World Philosophies Series, published by Indiana University Press.
He has developed a body of painted works under the theme of "elemental painting."
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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