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Biography
Stefan Gandler (born 1964 in Munich) is a philosopher and social scientist. He studied at Frankfurt University and has lived in Mexico since 1993
Life
Gandler studied Philosophy, Latin American studies, Romance Languages and Literatures and Political science in Frankfurt/Main, among others with Alfred Schmidt, and he was the Chairman of the Frankfurt General Students' Committee (AStA) in 1989/90.
1997 Stefan Gandler earned his doctorate with a study on Contemporary Social philosophy in Mexico, which has been translated in two languages. 1997 Gandler was tenured as professor for Social theory and Social Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ) and has this position until today, and since 2008 he is additionally permanent invited professor for philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Gandler is also, since 2001, member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (category 3) and founded in 2012 the Research Project on Critical Theory from the Americas of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). Gandler is since 2007 chair of the academic group Modernity, development and region from the Mexican Federal Education Authority. (SEP) In his sabbatical years he researched und taught at the Universität Frankfurt am Main (2001/2002), the University of California, Santa Cruz (2009/2010) and the Tulane University, New Orleans (2015/2016).
The main research fields of Stefan Gandler are the Critical theory of the Frankfurt School, the critical western Marxism, philosophy in Latin America, Critique of ideology and Walter Benjamin. He worked also as translator of philosophical texts between Spanish and German and published texts on Today's Germany and the National Socialism. Gandler is working on a productive conceptual confrontation between the Critical theory of the Frankfurt School and its contemporary further developments in Latin America, for example from the Ecuadorian-Mexican philosopher Bolívar Echeverría, trying to overcome the limitations of both: the philosophical Eurocentrism in the first case, and the reduced Critique of ideology in the second. In that context he uses also the non dogmatic interpretation of the works of Karl Marx made by the Spanish-Mexican philosopher Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, and that made by the Horkheimer-successor Alfred Schmidt.
Main Works
Books
- Wolfgang Pohrt, Klaus Bittermann, Stefan Gandler et al., Gemeinsam sind wir unausstehlich. Die Wiedervereinigung und ihre Folgen. Berlin: Edition Tiamat, 1990. 159 pp. ISBN 3-923118-42-2 (2nd edition: 1992).
- Peripherer Marxismus. Kritische Theorie in Mexiko. Argument, Hamburg/ Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88619-270-9, DNB 95744995X.
- Materialismus und Messianismus. Zu Walter Benjamins Thesen "Über den Begriff der Geschichte". Bielefeld, Aisthesis, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89528-695-7.
- Fragmentos de Frankfurt. Ensayos sobre la Teoría crítica. Siglo XXI Editores, México 2009, ISBN 978-607-03-0070-7. (2nd reprint: 2013) (2nd edition, revised, as e-book: 2013, ISBN 978-607-03-0402-6)
- Patricia Palacios Sierra, Alfonso Serna Jiménez, Stefan Gandler, Modernidad y diferencia. Reflexiones conceptuales y estudios empíricos en género y territorio. México: Porrúa, 2010, ISBN 978-6-07-401243-9.
- El discreto encanto de la modernidad. Ideologías contemporáneas y su crítica. Siglo XXI Editores / Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México 2013, ISBN 978-607-03-0479-8.
- Teoría crítica: imposible resignarse. Pesadillas de represión y aventuras de emancipación. (Ed.) Miguel Ángel Porrúa / Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México 2016, ISBN 978-607-524-029-9.
Essays
- Tesis sobre diferencia e identidad. In: Dialéctica. Revista de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Puebla, year 23, no. 32, spring 1999, pp. 109–116. ISSN 0185-7770.
- Mestizaje cultural y ethos barroco. Una reflexión intercultural a partir de Bolívar Echeverría. In: Itinerarios. Revista de estudios lingüísticos, literarios, históricos y antropológicos, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, Instituto de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos, no. 4, 2001, pp. 77-98. ISSN 1507-7241.
- ¿Por qué el Ángel de la Historia mira hacia atrás? In: Utopía y Praxis Latinoamericana. Revista internacional de Filosofía Iberoamericana y Teoría Social, Maracaibo, Venezuela Universidad del Zulia, año 8, númº20, enero-marzo 2003, pp. 7-39. ISSN 1316-5216.
- ¿Quién es Bolívar Echeverría?. In: La Jornada Semanal, supplement of La Jornada. México, no. 805, August 8, 2010, pp. 5–7.
- Razón, sociedad y Estado en la Filosofía del Estado de Hegel. In: Carlos Oliva Mendoza (ed.), Hegel: la ciencia de la experiencia. México: UNAM, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 2010, pp. 139–161. ISBN 9786070215650.
- Alfred Schmidt. In: La Jornada Semanal, supplement of La Jornada, México, no. 916, September 23, 2012, p. 16.
- Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: rebelión, antifascismo y enseñanza. In: La Jornada Semanal, supplement of La Jornada, México, no. 865, October 2, 2011, pp 8–10.
- Juárez y el liberalismo político mexicano. Aportaciones emancipadoras desde las Américas. In: Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Político, Huelva/Sevilla: Fundación Tercer Milenio/Universidad de Huelva/ Universidad Pablo de Olavide, vol. 8, 2013, pp. 233–250. ISSN 1885-589X.
- The quadruple modern Ethos: Critical Theory in the Americas. In: APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Lantino Issues in Philosophy, Newark, DE: American Philosophical Association/University of Delaware, vol. 14, núm. 1, fall 2014, pp. 2–4. ISSN 2155-9708.
- Subject and identity in today’s Latin American philosophy. Bolívar Echeverría: cultural studies and linguistics. In: Interculture philosophy. Journal for Philosophy and its Cultural Context. no. 1, 2015, ISSN 2363-6815, pp. 25–53.
- A Critical Praxis from the Americas. Thinking about the Zapatistas in Chiapas with Herbert Marcuse, Bolivar Echeverría, and Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez. In: Funke, Lamas and Wolfson (eds.), The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4399-1303-1.
- Etnocentrism and Critical Theory. Two cases: United States and Mexico. In: Comunicações. Revista do Programa de Pós Graduação em Educação da Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba. Piracicaba, SP, Brasilien, Jg. 24, Nr. 2, Mai-August 2017, ISSN 0104-8481, S. 33-56.
- Praxis, Nature, Labour. In: Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, Chris O'Kane, Neil Larsen (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA/London, Sage Publications, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4739-5334-5, S. 734-749.
- Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Philosophy of Praxis as Critical Theory. In: Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, Chris O'Kane, Neil Larsen (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA/London, Sage Publications, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4739-5334-5, S. 448-464.
Television lectures
- Javier Laso, Stefan Gandler, Palabra Suelta: Bolívar Echeverría, (part 2). In: ECTV (Ecuador TV), July 14, 2010.
- Ismael Carvallo, Stefan Gandler, Marxismo crítico en México. Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez y Bolívar Echeverría. In: Plaza de Armas, no. 92, Canal Capital21, México, February 15, 2012.
Secondary literature (selection)
- In English
- Willem Assies: (Review of: S. Gandler, Critical Marxism in Mexico. Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría) Gandler, Stefan: Peripherer Marxismus. Kritische Theorie in Mexiko. In: Thesis Eleven. Critical Theory and Historical Sociology. Australia, no. 71, nov. 2002, pp. 133–139.
- Michael Löwy, At a Glance: Stefan Gandler, Marxismo crítico en México: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez y Bolívar Echeverría. In: International Sociology. Journal of the International Sociological Association, Sage Publications, London, vol. 23, no. 2, March 2008, p. 235. ISSN 0268-5809.
- Carlos Alberto Sánchez, From the editor. In: APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, vol. 14, no. 1, fall 2014, p. 1. ISSN 2155-9708.
- Javier Sethness, Stefan Gandler: Critical Marxism in Mexico. Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría. In: Marx & Philosophy. Review of Books. Canterbury, 25. Nov. 2016.
- Arnold L. Farr, Review of Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolivar Echeverría (Haymarket). In: Lateral. Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. núm. 6.1, Chicago, IL, 2017, ISSN 2469-4053.
- In Spanish (book reviews)
- Levy del Águila, Stefan Gandler: Marxismo crítico en México: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez y Bolívar Echeverría ). In: Areté. Revista de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Departamento de Humanidades, vol. 20, no. 2, 2008, pp. 335–344. ISSN 1016-913X.
- José Cepedello Boiso, Marxismo crítico en México. In: Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Político, Fundación Tercer Milenio/Universidad de Huelva/Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla, vol. 4, 1st semester of 2009, pp. 231–233. ISSN 1885-589X.
- Jaime Torres Guillén, Praxis y ethos moderno como crítica al eurocentrismo. In: Desacatos. Revista de Antropología Social, Mexico City, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios en Antropología Social, no. 30, May–August 2009, pp. 178–185. ISSN 1405-9274.
- Israel Sanmartín, Marxismo crítico en México: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez y Bolívar Echeverría. In: Memoria y civilización. Anuario de Historia, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, España, no. 13, 2010, pp. 124–127. ISSN 1139-0107.
- Julio Boltvinik, Fragmentos de Frankfurt. Ensayos sobre la Teoría crítica. (Part 1). In: La Jornada, Mexico City, Nov. 5, 2010, p. 26. (Part 2: Nov. 12, p. 32.)
- Aureliano Ortega Esquivel, Stefan Gandler, Fragmentos de Frankfurt. Ensayos sobre la Teoría crítica. In: Diánoia. Revista de Filosofía. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Vol. 57, no. 68, May 2012, pp. 220–224.
- Lissette Silva Lazcano, Stefan Gandler (2013), El discreto encanto de la modernidad. Ideologías contemporáneas y su crítica. In: Signos Filosóficos. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Mexico City, no. 33, January–June 2015, pp. 126–131. ISSN 1665-1324.
- Rebeca Pérez León, Stefan Gandler, El discreto encanto de la modernidad. Ideologías contemporáneas y su crítica. In: Estudios Sociológicos. Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, Colegio de México, Mexico City, year 34, no. 101, May–August 2016, pp. 432–441.
- Bernardo Cortés Márquez, Sobre un pequeño desencantamiento de Occidente. In: Metapolítica. Benémerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Pubela, Mexico, no. 95, Nov. 2016.
- In German (book reviews)
- Christoph Görg: Gandler, Stefan: Peripherer Marxismus. In: Peripherie. Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt, Berlin, 2000, no. 8. pp. 112–115.
- Jörg Nowak: Gandler, Stefan: Peripherer Marxismus. Kritische Theorie in Mexiko. In: Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften. Hamburg, Berlin, year 43, vol. 242, no. 4/5, 2001, ISSN 0004-1157, pp. 710–711.
- Hans Schelkshorn: Undogmatischer Marxismus in Mexiko. In: Polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren. Vienna, no. 7, 2001, pp. 96–97.
- Jörg Nowak: Gandler, Stefan, Frankfurter Fragmente. Essays zur kritischen Theorie, Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M 2013. In: Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften. Hamburg/Berlin, year 57, vol. 311, no. 1, 2015, ISSN 0004-1157, pp. 113–115.