Alejandro Vallega

Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo
BornFebruary 18, 1964
AwardsRippey Innovation Teaching Award, 2018-2019 Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities
Education
Alma materUniversity of Vienna; St.John’s College, Annapolis.
Philosophical work
Era20th and 21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy; Latin American Thought.
SchoolContinental philosophy; Latin American thought; Ancient Greek philosophy.
InstitutionsUniversity of Oregon
Main interestsAesthetics; phenomenology; hermeneutics; deconstruction; Ancient Greek thought; Latin American thought, intercultural philosophy
Notable ideasAesthetic thought, decolonial aesthetics

Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo (born February 18, 1964 in Santiago, Chile) is an Italo-Latin American, U.S. Latino philosopher and painter. He is professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is a 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 of pre-reflexive affective, embodied and memorial dimensions of understanding and living experience.

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