Carlos Andrés Manrique

• Professor (Associate) at Los Andes University (Colombia)

The process of ethnization has led since the 1980s to the most important political victories of Black social movements in Colombia's Pacific region. Scholars who study this process have highlighted the notable role played by sectors of the local Catholic church in the historical formation and consolidation of these movements. These entanglements be...

The introduction to this special issue, "Subversive Religion and More-than-Human Materialities in Latin America," conceptualizes the transformative force of practices often gathered under the rubric of "popular religion," including Indigenous, Black, and campesino ritual as well as vernacular Catholicism and Pentecostalism. Rather than treating the...

In this paper I conceptualize the political theology at play in a recent popular uprising in Buenaventura, the main city-port in Colombia’s pacific littoral. This political theology emerges from the testimonies of people who participated in the events, and the theo-political vocabulary they employ in narrating what happened. To elaborate on it, I f...

In this piece I explore resonances between Foucault's engagements with political theology and a localized political spirituality embedded in a vast popular uprising in Colombia's Afro-Pacific littoral in May of 2017. I follow the prompt of Foucault's late remarks regarding a “philosophy of the future” that would emerge beyond the frontiers of Europ...

Este libro pretende seguir las preocupaciones de los primeros ejercicios de reflexión sobre la pandemia. Nos hemos propuesto estimular un debate público, que sea informado y original, sobre la experiencia actual, dotándolo de ideas, argumentos y algunas problematizaciones poco divulgadas. Porque creemos en la necesidad de exponer dilemas y problema...

Este artículo problematiza el difundido diagnóstico sobre la relación entre política y verdad, o política y mentira, que se moviliza con el vocablo posverdad. Primero, se cuestiona la presunta novedad histórica que este pretende identificar, recordando cómo la filosofía política en Occidente ha estado atravesada por una ansiedad frente a la fuerza...

This article analyzes the political reach and effects that diverse religious discourses and practices are having in Colombia’s current “peacebuilding” historical juncture. Examining two specific case studies of entanglements of the religious and the juridical, it traces pragmatically differential ways in which the complexes relations between religi...

This article develops a methodological and philosophical analysis regarding some implications of approaching the discursive production of social movements in Colombia as a distinctive place for thinking political conflict (in its plurality and heterogeneity). This requires an initial reflection on what is at stake in relation to the politics of lan...

In the generous expanse of Derrida’s philosophical production it is very rare to find an engagement with material that is not part of the archive of Western philosophical, academic, literary, or artistic cultures and their history. There are a few exceptions, like his close reading of two quite dissimilar legal documents: Nelson Mandela’s statement...

This article reflects on the ethical-political summon that modulates Foucault's thoughts regarding the necessity to invent other ways of being, so as to reject the type of subjectivity that is imposed on us and the mechanisms of power to which we are thus subjected, from the perspective of the question: How can this invention and transformation of...

To understand Derrida's conception of the relationship between literature and politics, one needs to begin with his reflection on the connection between the production of meaning in language, on the one hand, and the demarcation of borders in socio-political space, on the other. For Derrida, literature is a specific kind of writing that, by intensi...

To understand Derrida’s conception of the relationship between literature and politics, one needs to begin with his reflection on the connection between the production of meaning in language, on the one hand, and the demarcation of borders in socio-political space, on the other. For Derrida, literature is a specific kind of writing that, by intensi...

To understand Derrida�s conception of the relationship between literature and politics, one needs to begin with his reflection on the connection between the production of meaning in language, on the one hand, and the demarcation of borders in socio-political space, on the other. For Derrida, literature is a specific kind of writing that, by intensi...

There is an aporia in Kant’s analysis of evil: he defines radical evilas an invisible disposition of the will, but he also demands an inferential connection between visible evil actions and this invisible disposition. This inference,however, undermines the radical invisibility of radical evil according to Kant’s own definition of the latter. Noting...

There is an aporia in Kant's analysis of evil: he defines radical evil as an invisible disposition of the will, but he also demands an inferential con- nection between visible evil actions and this invisible disposition. This infer- ence, however, undermines the radical invisibility of radical evil according to Kant's own definition of the latter....