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  • Luis Guzman

    Part-time Associate Teaching Professor

    Email
    guzmanl@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Luis Guzman

    Profile

    He has taught philosophy at Hofstra U., NYU, LIU, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogota), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico City) and Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos (Cuernavaca, Mexico); author and translator from Spanish and German of articles on Aristotle, Plato, Hegel, Schelling, skepticism and Benjamin. He published Relating Hegel's Science of Logic to Contemporary Philosophy in 2015. He is currently working on the figure of the barbarian in the European colonial imaginary, juxtaposing Hegel and Bartolome de las Casas. 


    Degrees Held

    PhD, New School for Social Research (2002)


    Recent Publications

    "Normatividad e incertidumbre" in Walter Benjamin. Hacia la Critica de la Violencia, 2022

    “La Eterna Temporalidad del Saber Absoluto” in Lecturas de la Fenomenología del Espíritu de Hegel, Mexico, 2022

    “El Escepticismo de Hegel” in Hegel: Ontología, Estética y Política, Mexico, 2017

    "De Dualismos y Domesticaciones: Davidson, McDowell y Hegel", Ideas y Valores, Colombia, 2016

    Relating Hegel's Science of Logic to Contemporary Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

    "Benjamin's Divine Violence: Unjustifiable Justice", New Centennial Review, 2014

    "Totalidad y Negatividad en la Ciencia de la Logica de Hegel" Signos Filosoficos, Mexico, 2012.


    Performances and Appearances

    -Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples Conference Stanford Center for Latin American Studies/CIESAS

    La Otredad del Indio Americano: Bartolomé de las Casas en Valladolid   

    Mexico City, Mexico, October 2022

     

    -Hegel in/on Latinamerica, Online Workshop

     

    Barbarism in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 

    Organized by Ana Miranda and Tobias Wieland, September 2022


    -Keynote Speaker VII Coloquio Internacional de Ética y Filosofía Política

    Hegel y de las Casas frente al Bárbaro

    Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, March 2019

     

    -Keynote Speaker What Critique? Conference

    Negativity, Skepticism and Critique in Hegel: Converting the Negative into Being

    Umass Amherst, April 2016


    Research Interests

    Hegel, German Idealism, Wittgenstein, Decolonial thought.


    Current Courses

    Spanish Intermediate
    NSPN 2101, Spring 2025

    Spanish Intro 1
    NSPN 1101, Spring 2025

    Spanish Intro 2
    NSPN 1102, Spring 2025

    Future Courses

    Barbarians and Savages
    NPHI 3565, Fall 2025

    Spanish Intro 1
    NSPN 1101, Fall 2025, Summer 2025

    Spanish Intro 2
    NSPN 1102, Fall 2025

    Past Courses

    Human Rights
    NPHI 3288, Fall 2024

    Spanish Intro 1
    NSPN 1101, Fall 2024, Summer 2024

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