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Suspension of Seriousness On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, with a Translation of Fenomenolog�a Del Relajo

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ISBN-10: 1438444680

ISBN-13: 9781438444680

Edition: 2013

Authors: Carlos Alberto S�nchez S�nchez

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Description:

First in-depth analysis of this important Mexican philosopher’s work.
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Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 7/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 237
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Matters of Life and Death
Introduction
Jorge Portilla: An Anonymous Life
A Crisis of Relajo
The Context of the Method
On Subjectivity
A Critic of Modernity
Predictions
Reading Fenomenolog�a del relajo, Part 1
Situating Ourselves: El Grupo Hiperi�n
Approaching the Fenomenolog�a del relajo
The Descriptive Project
Reading Fenomenolog�a del relajo, Part 2
On Freedom
On Irony
On Humor
On Personality Types
The Fenomenolog�a as a Mirror of Society
Phenomenology and Fenomenolog�a
Mexican Philosophy in Profile
The Descriptive Method
The Destructive Method
Normative Considerations
A Human Worry
Metaphysics of the Subject
Leopoldo Zea and "lo mexicano"
Portilla's Confrontation with Ortega y Gasset's Circumstantial Self
Beyond Ortega
Relajo and Subjectivity
Subjectivity and Modernity
The Presuppositions of Modernity
Presupposition 1: Socratic Seriousness
Presupposition 2: Fecundity and Relajo
Postseriousness
A Crisis of Modernity
Concluding Remarks: Portilla and Mexican Philosophy
Appendix: Jorge Portilla, Fenomenolog�a del relajo, translated by Eleanor Marsh and Carlos Alberto S�nchez
Notes
Bibliography
Index