The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to present Eduardo Mendieta with the participation of Julia Jorati (Philosophy) and Joel Wainwright (Geography) on Friday, February 2, 2018 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM in 010 Page Hall.
Eduardo Mendieta is Acting Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor in the School of International Affairs at Penn State University. Mendieta is one of the foremost Latin American philosophers in the US academe, whose work on global theory, Latin American and African American philosophy, critical theory, and ethics is of relevance to re-think our present condition from new angles and alternative positions. He is the author of The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism; Global Fragments, Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory; The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics, and the editor of Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty and Otto Maduro's Map's for a Fiesta: A Latina/o Perspective on Knowledge and the Global Crisis. He is currently at work on a book tentatively titled Philosophy's Workshop, and anohter one on the critical philosophy of race: Technologies of the Racist Self.
This event is co-sponsored by the Organization of Hispanic and Latino Faculty and Staff, the Center for Latin American Studies and the departments of Philosophy, Geography, Political Science, and Comparative Studies.
