Alejandro Vallega

Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo (born February 18, 1964) is a Chilean-born philosopher, 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.

Fields
In recent years he has emphasized his approach to philosophical understanding in seeking to extend the fields of continental philosophy, world philosophies, and Latin American Philosophy of Liberation. This work happens in thinking between these ways of thinking, histories, and lineages, and bringing them into dialogue, for the sake of finding new or inceptive engagements with concrete existence.

Vallega has been co-director of the Collegium Phänomenologicum twice and is active member of the director's board. He served in the past as president of North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics. Among his editorial activities, he is the editor of the English version of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation, and he is editor of the World Philosophies Series, published by Indiana University Press.

In the last years, he has developed a body of art works under the theme of "elemental painting."

Books

 * Heidegger and the Question of Space: Thinking on Exilic Grounds (Penn State Press, 1999)
 * Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limit of Language, Art, and the Political (SUNY press, 2009–2010)
 * Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority (Indiana University Press, 2014)
 * Tiempo y Liberación (Editorial AKAL, 2020)
 * Dussel, Enrique. Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalisation and Exclusion.'' Ed. Alejandro Vallega (Duke University Press, 2013)