Description: Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher's social, cultural, and political writings.
Brief description: Carlos Alberto Sánchez is Professor of Philosophy at San José State University and the author of The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, With a Translation of Fenomenología del relajo, also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"Sánchez's and Gallegos's ... work of recovering Portilla's work for an English-speaking audience is commendable ... [the book is] an invitation to engage in critical discussion, which is required for the flourishing of a genuine philosophical community." - Radical Philosophy Review
"This book opens dialogues between the European and Latin American philosophical traditions, between Portilla's work and the Mexican philosophical tradition of which he was a part, and even opens a way to connect Portilla's work to contemporary work on race in the United States. The authors themselves create a dialogue between their own views of Portilla, which makes the book quite exciting to read." - Elizabeth Millán Brusslan, coeditor of Brill's Companion to German Romantic Philosophy