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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 and Literature
  • 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (Phenomenology, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Hermeneutics)
  • Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought
  • History of Philosophy (especially Ancient Greek Philosophy)
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

Publications

¿Para qué poetas en tiempo roto? Reflexiones en torno a Tiempo roto. Vivir en el Antropoceno 2025 - Journal Article
Lo sagrado y la transfiguración del lenguaje en la poesía venezolana del siglo XX, de José Antonio Ramos Sucre en adelante 2025 - Journal Article
The Infrapolitical Dream of Khōra and Its Legacies 2024 - Journal Article
The Infrapolitical Question in Greek Tragedy 2024 - Journal Article
“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

Awards

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

“Aristotle and the Origins of Modern Technology: Metaphysics and the Problem of Nihilism Since Heidegger,” 40th Heidegger Symposium, McKinney, TX, April 25-26, 2025
“Toward a Pharmacology of Dreams: Thinking the Problem of Nihilism in the Anthropocene with Stiegler,” Nihilism and the Anthropocene. A Workshop, Texas A&M University, April 17-19, 2025
“From the Critique of Latin American Reason to Its Deconstruction: Some Open Questions to Santiago Castro-Gómez,” 54th Annual North Texas Philosophical Association, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, March 28-29, 2025
“¿Para qué poetas en tiempos de extinción? Una aproximación infrapolítica a la época de los poetas en el Antropoceno”, Decoloniality, Infrapolitics & the Anthropocene. An International Workshop, Texas A&M University, November 6-9, 2024
“Khōra, Pharmakon, and the Possibility of the Future: Derrida, Stiegler, and Negentropic Potentials,” 8th Derrida Today, Athens, June 10-14, 2024

Affiliations

Center for US-Latin America Initiatives
Faculty Associate