Alejandro Vallega

Alejandro Vallega
Born
Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo

(1964-02-18) February 18, 1964
Santiago, Chile
Education
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Oregon
Main interestsAesthetics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, Ancient Greek thought, intercultural philosophy
Notable ideasAesthetic 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.