Alejandro Vallega
Alejandro Vallega | |
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| Born | Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo February 18, 1964 Santiago, Chile |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Oregon |
| Main interests | Aesthetics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, Ancient Greek thought, intercultural philosophy |
| Notable ideas | Aesthetic thought, decolonial aesthetics |
Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo (born February 18, 1964) is a Chilean-born Latin American painter and philosopher. He is a 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.