Alejandro A Vallega
Degrees
- Ph.D., Twentieth Century European Philosophy and Latin American Thought, Institut f眉r Philosophie Universit盲t Wien,Vienna, Austria
Alejandro is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Oregon. He works on the articulation of a decolonial poietics or decolonial aesthetic thought. Through his focus on the aesthetic dimensions of understanding and experience, he addresses issues such as the decolonizing of consciousness and knowledges, the configuring of dynamic transformative identities, and a philosophy that is fundamentally relational and memorial. Alejandro unfolds these topics through engaging the history of Western philosophy, Latin American philosophy and thought, indigenous and popular thinking in Latin America, Caribbean thought, and their European, African, and Islamic influences. He is author of聽Heidegger and the Issue of Space: Thinking on Exilic Grounds聽(Penn State Press, American and Continental Philosophy Series, 2003);聽Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Art, Language, and the Political聽(Contemporary Continental Philosophy Series, SUNY Press, 2009;聽Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority聽(Indiana University Press, Spring 2014); and, Tiempo y Liberacion (Editorial AKAL, Spain and Mexico).
