Nelson Maldonado-Torres (born 1971, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican philosopher and professor in Philosophy at University of Connecticut-Storrs.[1] He received his PhD from Brown UniversityinReligious Studies.[2] His work has been influential in contributing to ideas about decoloniality[3] decolonizing epistemology,[4] and in critiquing Western liberalism and Eurocentrism.[5][6] He is influenced by the works of Frantz Fanon, Emmanuel Levinas, and Enrique Dussel.[7]
He critiques the notion of representational politics as being enough to contribute to systemic change.[5] His work has been described as "animated by an ethic of decolonial love."[8] He is also noted for contributing to discourse on the decolonial turn.[9][10][11]
He was the head of the Caribbean Philosophical Association from 2008 to 2013.[12] He was one of the signatories to support the creation for a Latina/o Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States.[12]
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