Alejandro Bárcenas
Associate Professor
Office: Derrick Hall 222
Phone: (512) 245-1392
Email: abarcenas at txstate.edu
Books:
- Machiavelli's Art of Politics. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2015. 175 pages. ISBN 9789004298002.
- Reviewed in The Review of Politics 78 (2016): 467–469; Renaissance Quarterly 70.1 (2017): 300-301 and Ingenium 11(2017): 311-315.
Translations:
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. Translation and introduction. Knopf / Vintage Español, 2019. 144 pages. ISBN 9781984897848.
- El Arte de la Guerra by Sun Tzu. Translation and introduction. Anamnesis, 2014. 72 pages. ISBN 9781495385384.
- El Príncipe by Niccolò Machiavelli. Translation and introduction. Anamnesis, 2013. 184 pages. ISBN 9781495447839.
- El Príncipe by Niccolò Machiavelli. Translation, introduction and notes with José Rafael Herrera. Caracas, Venezuela: Los Libros de El Nacional, Colección Ares No 12, 1999 (reprint 2004, 2006). 125 pages. ISBN 9806423364.
Articles:
- "Han Fei's Rule of Law and its Limits'" in The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy. Edited by in Alexus McLeod. London and New York : Bloomsbury, 2019. pp. 155-183. ISBN 9781350007208.
-“Corporate Greed and Alien/ation: Marx vs. Weyland-Yutani” in Alien and Philosophy: I infest, therefore I am. Edited by Kevin S. Decker. Malden MA, USA / Oxford, UK / Carlton, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2017, pp. 48-54. ISBN 9781119280811.
-"'Make it So': Kant, Confucius and the Prime Directive” (with Steve Bein) in The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates. Edited by Kevin S. Decker and Jason T. Eberl. Malden MA, USA / Oxford, UK / Carlton, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2016, pp. 36-46. ISBN 978-1119146001
- "Historicidad y Cultura en 'El Espejo Enterrado'" in The Reptant Eagle: Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel. Edited by Roberto Cantú. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 271-287. ISBN 9781443870832
- “Machiavelli in esilio: le letture di Leo Strauss e Eric Voegelin” Atti E Memorie Dell’Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere Ed Arti Già Dei Ricovrati E Patavina 126.3 (2013-2014): 265-281.
- "Han Fei's Enlightened Ruler" Asian Philosophy 23.3 (2013): 236-259. ISSN 0955-2367.
- “Xunzi and Han Fei on Human Nature.” International Philosophical Quarterly 52.2 (2012): 135-148. ISSN 0019-0365.
- Newspaper El Nacional, Literary Supplement “El Papel Literario”: “Fuentes, a través de sus ensayos,” May 26th, 2012, p. G4.
- “Modern Japanese Aesthetics and the Neo-Kantians” in Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6: Confluences and Cross-Currents. Edited by Raquel Bouso and James W. Heisig. Nagoya, Japan: Nanzan, 2009, pp. 13-21. ISBN 9784990424831.
- Newspaper El Nacional, Literary Supplement “El Papel Literario”: "La Razón Enemiga de sí misma: La Dialéctica de la Ilustración” August 22, 2009, p. G7.
- “Jon, the Cynic: Dog Philosophy 101” in The Daily Show and Philosophy. Edited by Jason Holt. Malden MA, USA / Oxford, UK / Carlton, Australia: Blackwell Publishers 2007 (7th edition), pp. 93-103. ISBN 9781405163149.
- Expanded and updated in The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. Edited by Jason Holt. Malden MA, USA / Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2013, pp. 114-124. ISBN 9781118397688.
- “Historia y Eticidad en la Antígona de Hegel.” Apuntes Filosóficos 29 (2006). Philosophy Department, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, pp. 17-27. ISSN 1316-7553.
- “Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007) In Memoriam.” Apuntes Filosóficos 29 (2006). Philosophy Department, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, pp. 247-248. ISSN 1316-7553.
- “La Belleza de lo Impermanente como Proyecto Humanista: un Ensayo sobre los Orígenes de la Estética Japonesa y sus Raíces en la Filosofía Alemana” Contrastes: Suplemento IX. Estéticas: Occidente y Otras Culturas (2004). Philosophy Department, Universidad de Málaga, Spain, pp.17-39. ISSN 1136-9922.
- "Preface" to Los Cuatro Libros de Confucio. Translated by Cheng Lin. Caracas, Venezuela: Los Libros de El Nacional, 2000, pp. 3-10. ISBN 980642350X
- Reprinted in Los Cuatro Libros de Confucio. Translated by Cheng Lin. Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial Intermedio, Colección Biblioteca Profesional, 2004, pp. 3-10. ISBN 9587091965.
- “Magia y Ciencia: Redescubriendo a Leonardo.” Cultura Universitaria NS/116 (1998). Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, pp. 229-241. ISSN 0252-9084.
Courses:
PHIL 1305 Philosophy and Critical Thinking
PHIL 1320 Ethics and Society
PHIL 2311 History of Philosophy before 1600
PHIL 2312 History of Philosophy after 1600
PHIL 4350 Philosophy of the Arts
PHIL 4372 Latin American Philosophy
PHIL 5320 History of Ethics
PHIL 5328 Seminar in Ethics
PHIL 5388 Problems in Philosophy