About The Author

Carlos Alfonso Garduño Comparán

National Council for Science and Techonology of Mexico (CONACyT)

Mexico

Carlos A. Garduño Comparán. Bachelor in Philosophy, Iberoamerican University (UIA), 2004. Master in Philosophy, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), 2009. Ph. D. in Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), 2011.

He has read Philosophy of Communication, Ethics and Theory of Knowledge at Iberoamerican University (UIA), Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Sociopolitical Ideas and Institutions at Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM), in Mexico City.

His doctoral thesis explores the problem of the definition of Contemporary Art and was published in 2012 by Jaume I University with the title Arte, Estética y Psicoanálisis: promesa de reconciliación. La falta de evidencia del arte contemporáneo y su derecho a la existencia (Art, Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis: Promise of Reconciliation. The lack of evidence of Contemporary Art and its right to exist).

He is currently a postdoctoral fellow of the National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACyT), in the School of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) of Paris, where he researches about different concepts of representation in relation to the faculties of the subject, from Hume and Kant, to Benjamin, Ricœur, Arendt, Foucault and Psychoanalysis.

His general interests vary from Ethics, Aesthetics and Epistemology, to Psychoanalysis, Theory of Communication, Political Theory, Theory of History and Art, and Literary Criticism.