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050 4 _aB819.S257 2016
100 1 _aSánchez, Carlos Alberto.
245 1 0 _aContingency and Commitment :
_bMexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aAlbany :
_bState University of New York Press,
_c2016.
264 4 _c©2015.
300 _a1 online resource (172 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Series
505 0 _aIntro -- Contents -- Introduction From Prejudice to Violence -- Prejudice -- Violence -- Porvenir -- 1. Existentialism as Pause and Occasion The Appropriations of el Grupo Hiperión -- Setting a Tone: Joaquín Sánchezmacgrégor and Ricardo Guerra -- Unproblematic Readings -- Macgrégor on Existential Ethics -- Emilio Uranga and Maurice Merleau-ponty -- A Purposeful Reading -- Embodiment and World -- The Emotional Self -- Lessons -- Luis Villoro on Situational Existence -- Die Grundfrage -- The Situation -- Imitation or Limitation? -- Philosophy in Suspicion: Villoro's Gaos -- Jorge Portilla's Reading of Nausea -- The Novel -- Contingency -- Portilla's "Nostalgia for God" -- Reading Beyond -- Conclusion -- 2. Denying the Postmodern Jorge Portilla on Reason, Unreason, and the Freedom of Limits -- The Violence of Reading, Again -- Rereading Relajo -- Postmodern Premonitions -- Religion and Philosophy -- On Thomas Mann, or Portilla's Will to Reason -- Disgusting Mann -- The Value of Instrumental Reason -- Religious Existentialism,or the Postmodern Denial -- Conclusion -- 3. The Passion Dialectic On Rootedness, Fervors, and Appropriations -- Zozobra -- Philosophy and the Imperial Passion -- A Philosophy of Uneasiness -- The Imperial Passion -- The Passion That Refuses Itself -- Subaltern Fervor -- From Hesitation to Contradiction -- Embracing the Oscillation from Zea to Derrida -- Conclusion -- 4. The Mexican/American Challenge to Philosophy Uranga and Dewey -- Heidegger and Beyond -- Martin Heidegger -- And Beyond -- José Gaos's Translation Ofdewey's Experience and Nature -- "The Philosophy of Contingency" -- Experience and Nature -- Back to Philosophy -- Conclusion: Handsome Does -- 5. Philosophy sin más?: Notes on the Value of Mexican Philosophy for Latino/a Life -- Lessons -- Toward a Phenomenology of the Latino/a Experience.
505 8 _aThe Circumstance: Latino/as as "other" -- Lo Mexicano, Lo Latino: Appropriating the Lessons -- Emilio Uranga on Insufficiency, Unwillingness, and Distrust -- Desgana -- Generosity -- Liberation -- Harmony from Seriousness: More on Portilla -- Toward a Liberatory Latino/a Consciousness -- Sketch of a Latino/a Philosophy: Philosophy Sin Más? No. Philosophy Y Más! -- Conclusion: Peace, at Last? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aOffers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aExistentialism.
650 0 _aMexico-Intellectual life-20th century.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aSánchez, Carlos Alberto
_tContingency and Commitment
_dAlbany : State University of New York Press,c2016
_z9781438459455
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aSUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4396644
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