Luis Guzman
Part-time Associate Teaching Professor
Email
guzmanl@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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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.