Disintegration of Community

Carlos Alberto Sánchez is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University and the author of Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy and The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, With a Translation of Fenomenología del relajo, both also published by SUNY Press. Francisco Gallegos is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University.

"Sánchez's and Gallegos's … work of recovering Portilla's work for an English-speaking audience is commendable … [the book is] an invitation to engage in critical discussion, which is required for the flourishing of a genuine philosophical community." — Radical Philosophy Review"This book opens dialogues between the European and Latin American philosophical traditions, between Portilla's work and the Mexican philosophical tradition of which he was a part, and even opens a way to connect Portilla's work to contemporary work on race in the United States. The authors themselves create a dialogue between their own views of Portilla, which makes the book quite exciting to read." — Elizabeth Millán Brusslan, coeditor of Brill's Companion to German Romantic Philosophy

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Thinking with Portilla about PoliticsCarlos Alberto Sánchez & Francisco GallegosPart I: On "Critique of Criticism" 1. Terrorism of the SocialCarlos Alberto Sánchez2. Portilla's Conceptual Framework: Phenomenological NationalismFrancisco GallegosPart II: On "The Spiritual Crisis of the United States" 3. The Politics of InnocenceCarlos Alberto Sánchez4. Portilla's Method: A Phenomenological Social TheoryFrancisco GallegosPart III: On "Thomas Mann and German Irrationalism" 5. From Irrationalism to Complacency for the Death of the OtherCarlos Alberto Sánchez6. Portilla's Hope: Phenomenological Flourishing and Affective LiberationFrancisco GallegosAppendix Critique of CriticismJorge Portilla, translated by Francisco Gallegos and Carlos Alberto SánchezThe Spiritual Crisis of the United StatesJorge Portilla, translated by Francisco Gallegos and Carlos Alberto SánchezThomas Mann and German IrrationalismJorge Portilla, translated by Francisco Gallegos and Carlos Alberto SánchezBibliographyIndex