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A Talk by Alejandro de Acosta |
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The Challenges of Multinaturalism |
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Philosophical Reflections on Some Amerindian Concepts of Nature, Embodiment, and Self
Recent attention to indigenous thought in the Americas has challenged the foundations of Latin American philosophy. Latin American philosophy has gone from misunderstanding, disparaging or ignoring indigenous cosmologies to becoming a translator of these ways of thinking. This work has brought out the concept of "multinaturalism" as a viable and coherent alternative to what could be called the "mononaturalism" of many other perspectives. Multinaturalism is linked to a similarly multiplicitous conception of embodiment and self that emphasizes human kinship with nonhuman animals and responsibilities towards invisible as well as visible realities. This work, which is at the intersection of Latin American philosophy and ecological thinking, can have great impact on environmental ethics, especially when it comes to issues related to zones populated by indigenous peoples.
February 14, 2002 |
| Alejandro de Acosta teaches classes on political philosophy, Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari, technology and subjectivity, and Latin American philosophy in the Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Program at Binghamton University. He is co-host of the weekly political radio program "Bicho Raro" on WHRW-FM and editor of the independent electronic media digest "Thinking and Feeling." He recently translated a popular education pamphlet, El neoliberalismo. El programa de braceros. Los neo-braceros for use in immigrant Mexican communities and is working on translations of articles by Rofolfo Kusch and Enrique Dussel. |
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public. For special accommodation, contact us at 565-2266 or philosophy@unt.edu. |
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