Bruno G. Bosteels
· Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the HumanitiesColumbia University · Joint Programs
Active 1992–2024
Academic metrics are sourced from OpenAlex and public funding records; values may differ from Google Scholar.
About
Bruno G. Bosteels is a professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, affiliated with the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. His academic focus includes Latin American and Iberian cultures, with an emphasis on comparative literature and society. As a core faculty member, he contributes to the intellectual community through research and teaching in these areas, engaging with topics related to Latin American studies and comparative cultural analysis.
Research topics
- Psychology
- Computer Science
- Physics
- Epistemology
- Social psychology
- Archaeology
- Psychoanalysis
- History
- Philosophy
- Quantum mechanics
Selected publications
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
BRILL eBooks · 2021 · 65 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingCivilisation and Its Discontents
BRILL eBooks · 2021 · 30 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingAntrópica revista de ciencias sociales y humanidades. · 2022-07-01 · 2 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingLa lectura de Lewis H. Morgan por parte de Karl Marx no sólo produce un cambio paradigmático desde una visión progresista lineal de la historia hacia un perspectivismo multilineal en el que hay lugar para el desarrollo desigual, los saltos y los retornos del pasado “arcaico” en el futuro próximo del comunismo. También le permite a Marx plantear, con base en la historia profunda del antiguo México, la posibilidad del levantamiento revolucionario de la comunidad en tanto comuna, tal y como de hech…
Universality and Its Discontents
Routledge eBooks · 2023 · 1 citations
1st authorCorrespondingIn recent years, particularly among readers of Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, there has been a strong push to reassert a programme of political universalism. Once looked upon with great suspicion for concealing particular interests, universalism seems to have regained its emancipatory edge. In “Universality and Its Discontents,” Bruno Bosteels questions this new universalism on the basis of two fundamental questions, the first, having to do with the relation between universality and singularity,…
From Marx to Heidegger: Oscar del Barco and the crisis of Marxism
Radical Americas · 2021-12-07 · 1 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThis article traces the path from Marx to Heidegger along which the Argentine philosopher Oscar del Barco responded to the crisis of Marxism. Interrogating Heidegger’s own suggestion of a ‘fruitful dialogue’ with Marx’s thinking of history and alienation, Del Barco gradually moved to a critique of Marxism as being part and parcel of the twice millenarian tradition of Western metaphysics. If, in an earlier collection such as El otro Marx , he still believed in the possibility of retrieving the ‘o…
Frequent coauthors
- 12 shared
Alain Badiou
Institut za filozofiju
- 6 shared
?
- 4 shared
Kathryn Wichelns
- 4 shared
Thomas Brockelman
- 4 shared
Франк Руда
Capital Normal University
- 4 shared
Thomas F. Johnston
- 4 shared
Ed Pluth
City University of New York
- 4 shared
Jeremi Roth
New School
Labs
ICLSPI
Similar researchers at Columbia University
- Resume-aware match score
- Save to shortlist
- AI-drafted outreach
See your match with Bruno G. Bosteels
PhdFit ranks faculty by your research interests, methods, and publications — grounded in their actual work, not templates.
- Free to start
- No credit card
- 30-second signup