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Humberto González-Núñez

Humberto González-Núñez

Assistant Professor — Philosophy
 
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Professional Preparation

Ph.D. - Philosophy
Villanova University - 2022
M.A. - Philosophy
Villanova University - 2018
B.A. - Philosophy
Texas A&M University - 2015

Research Areas

Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Philosophy, Literature, and Poetry and Decolonial Thought
19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. French Phenomenology/Deconstruction and Italian Thought)
Ancient Philosophy (esp. Plato and Aristotle)

Publications

“The Emergence of Being and Time as Ἐνέργεια: Heidegger’s Unfinished Confrontation with Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” Kronos: Philosophical Journal, Volume XI, 86-99 2022 - Journal Article
Ian Alexander Moore, Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Volume 42, no. 2, pp. 586-589 2022 - Book Review
“The Destruction of Philosophy: Metaphoricity-History-Being,” Política común, Volume 13 2020 - Journal Article
“Neither People nor Multitude: Posthegemony and the End of the Politics of Representation,” ed. Giacomo Marramao, Interregnum: Between Biopolitics and Posthegemony, New York: Mimesis International, pp. 149-160 2020 - Book Chapter
Roberto Esposito, “Post-democracy and Biopolitics,” Interregnum: Between Biopolitics and Posthegemony, ed. Giacomo Marramao, New York: Mimesis International, pp. 87- 95 2020 - Translation
“La expatriación como condena: Una lectura existencial de “Del país de la pena” por Hanni Ossott,” Res publica: Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas 21.3, pp. 529-544 2018 - Journal Article
“El nudo infrapolítico y la verdad de la democracia,” Pensamiento al margen, Número especial Infrapolítica y Democracia, pp. 160-181 2018 - Journal Article
“The Undecidability of the Politics of Politics: On Geoffrey Bennington’s Scatter 1,” Política común, Volume 12 2018 - Journal Article

Awards

Funding Extension (Disruptions due to COVID-19) - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Villanova University [2021]
Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Villanova University [2019]
Summer Research Fellowship, Collegium Phaenomenologicum - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Villanova University [2018]
Erasmus +KA107 Mobility Program - Erasmus+ [2018]
Manuel Davenport Prize - Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University [2015]
Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars Grant - Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University [2014]

Appointments

Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2023–Present]
Adjunct Instructor
Blinn College [2020–2020]

Presentations

“The Inconspicuous Phenomenality of Phusis: Heidegger, Heraclitus, and the Phenomenology of the Inapparent,” North Texas Philosophical Association, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, March 31-April 1, 2023
“Socrates polutropos: Toward an Infrapolitical Sketch of Socratic Practice,” American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, IL, March 16-19, 2023
“Heidegger’s Unfinished Interpretation and Translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda,” Southwest Seminar for Continental Philosophy, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, June 1-3, 2022
“‘Life is But a Fleeting Shadow’: The Infrapolitical Question in Greek Tragedy,” Tracking Infrapolitics 1, College Station, TX, March 3-6, 2022
“Love as Detachment and Releasement in Meister Eckhart’s Mystical Writings,” 46th Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, October 15-17, 2021

Affiliations

Center for US-Latin America Initiatives
Faculty Associate