Alejandro Pérez y Soto Domínguez

Commercial Society as a Philosophical Problem: An Analysis from Mandeville to the Scottish Enlightenment

It is commonly held, on the authority of Hirschman, that interest was elaborated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a countervailing principle against the destructive passions, and that commercial society rests upon the substitution of calculation for affection. This...

Rural Higher Education as Misrecognition: Reconstructing the Agrarian University from Latin America

This concept paper reconstructs the public agrarian university as an institutional configuration of recognition and reads the rural–urban gap at the threshold of higher education as one material expression of it. The reconstruction runs from Hegel’s assignment of the agricultural...