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Carlos Alberto Sánchez: Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy

State University of New York Press, Albany, 2016, 161 pp, ISBN 9781438459455

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Notes

  1. Sánchez does mention the Mexican Revolution in four places in the text, and two of those mentionings are made parenthetically (pp. 13, 14, 21, 66). The events of the Second World War are mentioned twice (pp. 50, 132).

  2. For more on this theme in Caso’s work, see Krauze (1961) and Stehn (2013).

  3. Also, it is important to note the Caso published two revised versions of this text in 1919 and in 1943.

  4. Zea, Gaos, and Ramos also contributed to Homenaje a Antonio Caso.

  5. Sánchez does cite Latina theorists Linda Martín Alcoff and Ofelia Schutte, but, unfortunately does not highlight their contributions to the study of gender and Latinidad. In addition to the two named Latina authors, it would have productive to see Sánchez engage Latina feminist writings such as those of Mariana Ortega who as has written on existential phenomenology and Latinidad (2001), Stephanie Rivera Berruz on the omission of Latina/os from academic philosophy (2014a, b), Natalie Cisneros on “alien” citizenship and conceptions of deviance affecting Latina/os (2013), or Elena Ruíz on Latina phenomenology and academic philosophy (2014).

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Mariana Ortega, Cynthia Paccacerqua, and Stephanie Rivera Berruz for their helpful comments during the writing of this review.

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Pitts, A.J. Carlos Alberto Sánchez: Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy. Hum Stud 39, 645–652 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-016-9410-8

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