Lessons in Exile

Carlos Pereda, Ph.D. (Universität Konstanz) is Researcher Emeritus at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has published fourteen books including An Ethics of Dispute (1994), On Trust (2009), and Philosophy in Mexico in the 20th Century (2013).Sean Manning, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin) is a literary translator and Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin. His other translations include works by Lorenzo García Vega, Eduardo Lalo, and Azahara Palomeque.

• A Map for the Road1 Words, Words, Words1“Our Bones are Dried Up”—“Build Houses and Dwell in Them”2“I Am a Foreigner in Every Land”—“In Every Land I Am at Home”3Demands from Different Directions4Reasons For and Against Certain Cosmopolitanisms2 Testimonies and Metatestimonies1Testimonies of Injustice2The Difficult and Infuriating Art of Self-Interruption3Metatestimonies3 Exile as Loss1There is a Time to Be Involved and a Time to Step Away4 Exile as Resistance1There is a Time to Resist and a Time to Break with the Situation Being Resisted as Well as with Resistance Itself5 Exile as a New Beginning6 Words Say, Words Resonate1Arrogant Reasoning2Comparisons, Metaphors, Analogies, Abstractions, Perspectives… On the Varying Resonations of Some Uses of Words Like “Exile,” “Loss,” “Resistance” and “New Beginning,” 3An Usher for Loss7 Nomadic Cultures and Personhood1Cultural Storerooms2Two Types of Practical Norms3The Dilemma of Personhood4Capacity for JudgmentClarificationBibliographyIndex