Profile
He completed postgraduate studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. Doctor of Philosophy from the UNAM. Member of the National System of Researchers and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM. He served as co-editor-in-chief of North America. Academic Journal of CISAN (from 2006 to 2009).
Amongst the distinctions he has received, are the Ibero-American Poetry Prize "Carlos Pellicer", awarded by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (1989); the "Literary Translation 1999" scholarship, awarded by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (2000-2001); "Recognition of Desirable Profile for Full-Time Professors", granted by the Ministry of Public Education through the Undersecretariat of Higher Education and Scientific Research (2003-2006), the Scholarship for Sabbatical Stay of the DGAPA, UNAM (2015-2016) as a guest researcher at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, and the Scholarship for Sabbatical Stay of that direction (2021) as a guest researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Higher Research Council Scientists (CSIC) of Madrid.
Currently, he teaches courses in the Master's and Doctorate Program in Philosophy of the FFYL, UNAM, of which he is also a tutor.
Position:
Full-time permanent "C" researcher, attached to the Geopolitical and Strategic Studies Area
Research Areas
- Modern political philosophy (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)
- Philosophy of culture (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)
- Modern Republicanism and Constitutionalism in the Founding Fathers of the United States of America
- The Savage of North America and the Construction of Otherness in the European Culture of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centurie
Recent Publications
Más crudo que cocido. Otredad e imaginario social en la Enciclopedia de Diderot y d’Alembert (Madrid: Trama Editorial, 2018)
Los dioses llegaron tarde a Filadelfia. Una dimensión mitohistórica de la soberanía (México: Bonilla-Artigas Editores/CISAN, UNAM, 2015)
El planisferio de Morgius Cancri. Enciclopedia Universal (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014)
Para leer a Georges Bataille (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2012)
Franklin y Jefferson: entre dos revoluciones. Inicios de la política internacional estadunidense (México: CISAN-UNAM, 2009)
Príncipe de Ligne: Extravíos o mis ideas al vuelo (Madrid: Sexto Piso, 2009)
Georges Bataille: la oscuridad no miente. Textos y apuntes para la continuación de la Summa ateológica (México: Taurus, 2001), y edición española en la misma editorial (2002)
Del desorden de Dios (México: Taurus, 1997)
