Welcome to the web page of JULIO CABRERA, a philosopher born in Cordoba (Argentine) who lives in Brazil from 1979, due to the Argentine policy of intellectuals’ exportation.
He received a multiple philosophical education, "analytical" and "continental" (spelled in the usual European terms). His styles of exposition are both argumentative and narrative, and his central position can be seen as a kind of ethical and logical pessimism.
In Ethics he sustains a negative ethics focusing the relations between the human situation in the world and the possibility of morality, a critique of affirmative morality, the tension between a negative morality and the negation of all morality, defending a thesis of the structural moral inabilitation of humans and providing negative resolutions for ethical and bioethical questions as procriation, abortion, suicide and heterocide.
In Logics he adresses criticisms against formal logic as a tool for philosophical analysis and develops research on informal and semi-formal logic and the construction of “lexical logics”. More recently he sustains a negative approach to argumentation according to which no argument is without counter-arguments and no philosophical discussion can achieve a definitive and absolute result.
In Philosophy of Language he criticizes the predominance of analytical philosophy in the study of language, looking for a plural and diversified way of understanding the area, including phenomenological, hermeneutic, psychoanalitical,dialectical and existential approaches to language. From the nineties he is currently studying the language of cinema as an alternative to written philosophy, investigating the construction of concepts through images and the notion of “logopathy”, the cognitive value of images and the affective-sensitive import of concepts.
More recently Julio Cabrera is concerned with a the conditions of thinking from Latin America as a peripheral and colonized culture, the nature of philosophy, the relations between philosophy and thinking, Euro-centrism, the mechanisms of exclusion of philosophies and a philosophical agenda from Latin-America. Thinking from a locus of cultural dependency, the "analytic-continental" divide loses great part of its original force (despite the crisis of the divide within Europe).
He is currently thinking on the difficult relations between negative thinking and politics, between logical and ethical pessimism on one side and the political demand of cultural liberation on the other, towards the formulation and implementation of a negative politics.
Contact: kabra7@gmail.com
