Political Science Faculty and Staff
Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2004
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2004
His areas of teaching and research interest are political responsibility; catastrophe as a trope in twentieth-century political thought; critical theory and dialectical thinking; democratic theory; the history of political theory; the political import of memory; and theories of textual interpretation. His recent work has been located in the intersection of the tradition of critical theory associated with the first generation of the Frankfurt School, especially the writings of Theodor W. Adorno, with the experience of political catastrophe in the twentieth century. While heavily indebted to Adorno’s critical theory, his work is also concerned with other thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, John Dewey, Georg Lukács, Karl Popper, Paul Ricoeur, Gillian Rose, Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, Simone Weil, and Sheldon S. Wolin. Currently, he is working on a book-length manuscript tentatively titled The Orders of Responsibility. This project explores the significance of catastrophe for a politically infused critical theory of responsibility.
Additionally, he continues to work on a second book-project tentatively titled Universal History Disavowed? This project consists of a conceptual study of critical theory and the political and ethical import of dialectical thinking with a focus on a reconstituted notion of “universal history.” In the future, he hopes to undertake a book-length study of Catholicism and the counterrevolutionary traditions of the twentieth-century. He has also written essays on democratic theory, neoliberalism, and the politics of recognition. His essays and reviews have appeared in Disonante, Historia y Sociedad, Polity, Theory & Event, and Radical Philosophy.
Email: Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo