Volume 7, No. 1.
With the closure of Volume 7 of Dialektika: Journal of Philosophical Research and Social Theory, we bring together works in aesthetics, metaphysics, social and political philosophy, logic, and critical review, connected by a shared concern: to describe and discuss contemporary transformations of experience, public life, and the production of meaning. This volume was developed throughout the year under a continuous publication model, incorporating contributions as they completed the editorial process.
In aesthetics, Alex B. Pablos offers a reworking of habit at the intersection of aesthetic theory and contemporary cognitive science in The Aesthetic Category of Habitus: The Act of Differentiation, articulating a Deleuzian reading alongside Deweyan intuitions and debates within the enactive approach. In a different register, Boris Saavedra Pérez examines the relationship between the experience of beauty and a sacrificial disposition in Beauty and Sacrifice: Towards an Encounter with the Sacred, drawing on Roger Scruton’s aesthetic philosophy to discuss openness to transcendence in contemporary culture.
In the metaphysical and historical domain, Amílcar Aldama Cruz reconstructs the figure of Agathodaimon within the Arabic–Islamic tradition in The Mythico-Philosophical Doxography of Agathodaimon in the Arab-Islamic Context: Suhrawardī and Ṣadrā, highlighting its role as a mediator between ancient bodies of knowledge and later philosophical schools. In contemporary philosophy, Andrés Abel Iglesias Marrero addresses the Camusian tension between finitude, rebellion, and history in The Enigma of Being: An Analysis of the Underlying Triad in Camusian Philosophy.
The section on social and political philosophy engages problems of the first order. Armando Chaguaceda analyzes the phenomenon of illiberalism beyond doctrinal alignments in Left-Wing Illiberalism: Discussing the Doxa from a Latin American Perspective. Freddy Varona Domínguez examines Paul Virilio’s and Hartmut Rosa’s diagnoses of speed, technology, and alienation in Speed and Social Acceleration: Two Perspectives and a Common Purpose. Andrés Aedo, for his part, problematizes the concepts of social confirmation and consonance with the world—in dialogue with Axel Honneth and Hartmut Rosa—in Social Confirmation and Consonance with the World: From Theoretical Residues to Subjective and Relational Descriptors of Late Modernity.
In logic and philosophy of language, Javier Silva Silva offers a critical review of the contemporary debate on conditionals through Dorothy Edgington in A Critical Analysis of Edgington’s Argument Against the Truth-Functional Account of the Conditional and on Its Positive Account. The volume also includes Francisco Miguel Ortiz Delgado’s essay Philosophy of Trans-History and Todd Phillips’ Joker in Slavoj Žižek’s Surplus Enjoyment, which discusses trans-historical coordinates in Žižek’s thought and the figure of the Joker as a cultural artifact.
Finally, the review section broadens the volume’s scope toward recent debates: Roberto Luis Díaz Perojo examines Ferraris’s proposal in A Critical Review of “Webfare: A Manifesto for Digital Well-Being” by Maurizio Ferraris; Arian Rodriguez Benítez comments on Michael Lazarus’s Absolute Ethical Life in The Elusive Social Dimension: Reading Michael Lazarus’s “Absolute Ethical Life”; and Jorge González Arocha analyzes “The Image That Thinks Us”: Subjectivity and Visuality in La autonomía de los no-vivos by Ramsés Radi, addressing the ontological and political dimension of digital visuality.
With this closure, Volume 7 stands as a deliberately plural panorama: not a single theme, but a set of interventions that, from different philosophical languages, insist on the same demand—to think rigorously about what is happening in our present.
Editorial Team
Dialektika: Journal of Philosophical Research and Social Theory