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Alejandro Vallega | |
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Born | Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo February 18, 1964 Santiago, Chile |
Education | |
Alma mater | University of Vienna St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) |
Philosophical work | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy |
Institutions | University of Oregon |
Main interests | Aesthetics,phenomenology,hermeneutics,deconstruction,Ancient Greek thought,intercultural philosophy |
Notable ideas | Aesthetic thought,decolonial aesthetics |
Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo (born February 18,1964) is a Chilean-born American philosopher and painter. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is a Faculty Research Fellow of the Center for Gender and Africa Studies of the University of the Free State,South Africa. In his work,he develops an aesthetic philosophy,in which he engages the aesthetic of pre-reflexive affective,embodied,and memorial dimensions of understanding and living experience.
His approach to philosophical understanding is informed by aesthetic experience and imagination. [1] [2] He works on Ancient Greek philosophy,Continental philosophy,and Latin American philosophy,and popular and indigenous thought.
Vallega has twice been co-director of the Collegium Phänomenologicum and is a member of the board of directors. He served as president of North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics. He is the editor of the English version of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation, and of the World Philosophies Series,published by Indiana University Press.
He has developed a body of painted works under the theme of "elemental painting."