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Las Casas (through Fichte) on the Indians’ Moral Agency and the Fraser-Honneth Recognition Debate

About the talk:
This lecture significantly treats Bartolomé de Las Casas as a philosopher, which is to say, as a creator of concepts (Deleuze)–a philosopher who articulated and argued for an ontology of the (non-Western) Other that anticipated Fichte and Hegel’s notion of recognition, and even reached beyond them to the question of the excluded Other in Dussel and today’s “recognition” debate between Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth.

Theodori de Bry illustration for 1598 edition of Bartolomé de las Casas’ book

About Professor Rolando Pérez:
Rolando Pérez is professor of Latin American literature and philosophy at Hunter College. He is the author of Severo Sarduy and the Neo-Baroque Image of Thought in the Visual Arts (2012); the co-editor of Filosofia y culturas hispánicas: Nuevas perspectivas (2016); and the editor of Agorapoetics: Poetics after Postmodernism (2016). His creative writing has been anthologized in The Northon Anthology of Latino Literature (2011).