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S. Hugo Moreno |
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Areas
Modern Latin American Literature, Latin American Poetry & Poetics, Twentieth-Century Mexican Literature, Society & Culture Interests and Current Work My research covers three different fields of study: 20th century Latin American literature, 20th century Hispanic and Hispanic American philosophy, and the poetic tradition of Western philosophy. The focus of my research is the area where these three areas converge. Specifically, I study how so-called literary texts and authors address and explore philosophical issues and questions. In my book manuscript Between Literature and Theory: Paz, Zambrano,
Borges, and the Poetic Tradition of Hispanic Thinking (currently
in progress), I propose that in the Spanish-speaking world there
is a highly original, but inadequately understood model of poetic
thinking that breaks down the literature-theory distinction. My
manuscript consists of a series of studies on poetic thinking in
the works of three of the foremost Hispanic authors and thinkers
of the 20th Century: Octavio Paz, María Zambrano, and Jorge
Luis Borges. The basic purpose of this project is not only to elucidate
the rich and highly unique philosophical content of their texts.
More importantly, it is to contribute to the better understanding
and appreciation of what I call the poetic tradition of Hispanic
thinking, a tradition which in spite of its immense significance
in the region has been largely neglected and overlooked as a unit
of analysis by scholars of Latin American and Western ideas, thought,
and philosophy. Recent and Selected Publications "La superación de la metafísica en la obra de
Octavio Paz y María Zambrano." "Octavio Paz's Reply to Hegel's Philosophical Legacy"
Hispanófila 145 "El humanismo de Alfonso Reyes, hoy." Revista de literatura
mexicana contemporánea 18.9 (enero-marzo 2003): 14-24. |