MEXICAN EXISTENTIALISM

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Document Type

Contribution to a Book

Publication Title

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism

DOI

10.4324/9781003247791-20

First Page

194

Last Page

202

Abstract

This entry serves as an introduction to Mexican existentialism, or Mexistentialism for short, its history and its themes. We suggest that like European existentialism, Mexistentialism takes seriously the concreteness or facticity of situated human existence. Unlike European existentialism, Mexistentialism locates the human struggle in a geographically determined space and historically determined time, both of which affect our being human in a definite way. Mexistentialism cares about the specificity of where and when one happens to find oneself. Mexistentialism’s where is Mexico, while its when is post-colonial, and particularly, post-revolutionary Mexico. Mexistentialism is circumstantial, or situational.

Department

Philosophy

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