Publisher's Synopsis
What capacity do the ethics and politics of otherness have, or could they have, in current philosophical perspectives? In the context of recent Spanish philosophy, the work of Gabriel Bello Reguera has confronted the ethical-political challenge which demands taking otherness seriously. He has developed his academic career at Laguna University as a professor of moral philosophy, and there are three fundamental turning points in his development as a philosopher that are related to each other. The first we can derive from the impact of reading the work of neopragmatist Richard Rorty, who influenced his critique of the fundamental authority of the philosophical tradition and aroused his interest in narrative linked to conversation as the edifying tool of ethics. The second is due to the influence of Emmanuel Levinas who problematizes the relationships between the ethical categories of identity, difference, and otherness. The third, and most recent, takes us to the bedrock of the analysis of immigration in tis postcolonial context as an urgent matter for a new philosophical, ethical, and political framework. In this collection, through the work of Gabriel Bello, we confront with rigueur the contextualization of the ethics and politics of otherness, we continue the discussion around these topics at the same time that we elaborate on the critical balance research must maintain between its possibilities and its limits. With all that, meanwhile, we follow the tradition of offering recognition and gratitude to our teachers. In this case, we recognize the direction of teacher and researcher Professor Gabriel Bello Reguera and his rigorous and scrupulous dedication to university life. His work, which spans four decades, is a testament to how philosophy in the context of Spain, after abandoning the wasteland created by Francoism, participates in the current transnational debates, such as those in which the ethics and politics of otherness pose inevitable challenges. We have recreated the academic ritual of homage, something very central to German philosophy, like the festschrift, with the desire to bless him with the most outstanding feeling that can be had: that of a critical intellectual debate.
