Porque te amo, NÃO nascerás! (Because I love you, you will NOT born) (2009)
This is a philosophical novel that addresses the delicate subject of the morality of procreation, assuming from the very beginning the point of view of the one who will be born. Written in different styles, from the essay to the epistolary literature, it tries to present the abstention of procreation as an act of radical love. The book contains numerous illustrations.
Crítica de la Moral afirmativa (A Critique of Affirmative Morality) (2014)
Pioneering work of the current antinatalist movement, published in 1996, republished in 2014, corrected and increased, this work addresses the value of human life, the morality of procreation, suicide and the possibility of a negative ethics. It contains discussions with Habermas, Hare, Tugendhat and Benatar.
Análisis y Existência. Pensamiento em travesía (Analysis and Existence: Thinking in transit) (2010)
An anthology of papers written between 1984 and 2004 performing a kind of oscillating thinking between logico-linguistic and existential methods of philosophizing, all of them performed from some disenchanted Latin American perspective, where European, Latino-American and North-American subjects and authors (from Searle to Sartre, from Nietzsche to Dussel) are seen in a critical overview and combined in irreverent ways.
Cine: 100 años de Filosofia (Cinema: One hundred years of Philosophy) (2015)
Originally published in 1999 and reissued in 2015, corrected, increased and illustrated, it develops the idea that cinema can build concepts of philosophical relevance. The theory is applied through 14 exercises: Bacon and Spielberg, Descartes and Hitchcock, Hegel and Wim Wenders, Heidegger and Antonioni, Wittgenstein and silent movies, and many others.
Da Aristotele a Spielberg. Capire la filosofia attraverso i film (2000)
This is the 2000 Italian translation by Mondadori of my book Cine: 100 años de Filosofia, published the previous year in Barcelona. It is a very faithful version of the original, with the addition of numerous explanatory and critical notes.
Margens das Filosofias da linguagem (Margins of Philosophies of Language) (2003)
In this book originally published in 2003 and re-edited in 2009, philosophy of language is shown in conflicts between Hermeneutic, Analytic, Phenomenological, Psychoanalytical, etc, approaches. From Frege and Wittgenstein to Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, this book challenges the frontiers of usual introductions to this area. The book also opens a meta-philosophical discussion advocating for pluralism in philosophy.
A Ética e suas negações (Ethics and its negations) (2011)
This is the second edition of the 1989 Project for a Negative Ethics, and the first text to address the ethically problematic nature of procreation. The work is written in aphorisms and it points to a critique of the affirmative European ethics, seeking to formulate a negative ethics and displacing the questions “How should I live?” and "how to be a good father?" for the most radical ones: “Should I live?”, “Should I be a father?”.
Discomfort and Moral Impediment (2019)
This book published in England in 2019 contains the core of the classic subjects of negative ethics, focusing primarily on the relations between the discomfort of the human situation - pain and discouragement - and the ethical demands of not manipulating and not harming. It contains a detailed argument about the morality of procreation and related subjects, abortion and suicide.
Introduction to a Negative Approach to Argumentation (2019)
This book exposes a conception of philosophical argumentation of a Gestaltic and perspectivistic nature, according to which diametrically opposed arguments can be valid at the same time, going beyond dogmatism and skepticism. It presents numerous examples of real philosophical controversies and proposes a new ethical attitude concerning the difference of perspectives. It contains a critique of Van Eemeren's Pragma-dialectic theory.
A Moral do Começo (2019)
Exchange of philosophical correspondence between Hilan Bensusan and Julio Cabrera on the topic of the morality or immorality of having children and negative ethics. The book includes texts by Ana Miriam Wuensch on natality in Hannah Arendt’s work and an epilogue by Ondina Pena on birth, anthropology and bioethics.