Global InformationAlejandro Vallega information
Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo | |
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| Born | February 18, 1964 |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Awards | Rippey Innovation Teaching Award, 2018-2019 Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Oregon |
Main interests | Latin American thought, Philosophy of liberation, Decolonial philosophies, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction |
Notable ideas | Liberatory decolonial aesthetic though. |
Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo (born February 18, 1964) is a Chilean-born philosopher, decolonial thinker, writer, painter, and Professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is also 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 or pre-reflexive affective, embodied and memorial dimensions of understanding and living experience.