Alberto Buela
Alberto Buela | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires (1972) Paris-Sorbonne University (MA, 1981; PhD, 1984)[1] |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
Main interests | Ethics, history, metapolitics, nationalism, ontology, peronism, philosophy of politics, philosophy of religion, theory |
Notable ideas | Metapolitics |
Alberto Buela Lamas (born 1946) is an Argentine philosopher and a philosophy professor at the National Technological University and the University of Barcelona. He is best known for his philosophical works on metapolitics, Aristotle and Peronism.[2]
Buela also works as a researcher in the University of Barcelona.[3]
Work
Alberto Buela was highly influenced by Latinoamerican philosophers such as Gilberto Freyre, Saúl Taborda, and Julio Ycaza Tigerino. He also has listed as an influence the phenomenological work of Max Scheler, the existentialism of Martin Heidegger, Hegel, Aristotle (his main influence), and Carl Schmitt's practical theories.
His work has been based in an exchange with phenomenology as a method and in the concepts exposed by Heidegger in his works.
Buela is an author of numerous books and articles about metapolitics, ontology, political philosophy, among other topics.[4]
Other media
Alberto Buela has a blog.[5]
He is also a lecturer.[6]
Buela appeared as a special guest in a program by TLV1- Toda la verdad primero (a web series about conspiracy theories hosted by Juan Manuel Soaje Pinto) to debate history and politics.[7]
Bibliography
Books
- El sentido de América, Buenos Aires, Ed. Theoria, 1990
- Reto comunitario, Buenos Aires, 1995
Editor
- Honneth, Axel: El comunitarismo un debate sobre los fundamentos morales de las sociedades modernas, Ed.Campus Verlag, Frankfort, 1993
- Lipovetsky, Gilles: El crepúsculo del deber, Barcelona, Editorial Anagrama, 1994
- MacIntayre, Alasdair: Tras la virtud, Barcelona, Ed. Crítica, 1987
- Taylor, Charles: Ética de la autenticidad (English title: The Malaise of Modernity), Madrid-Bs. As., Ed. Paidós, 1994
- Walzer, Michael: Spheres of Justice, Oxford, Ed. Blackwell, 1983
